Air Force Test Center Forging Our Nation's Sword and Shield

Sort By

Category

Show Advanced Options

Clear Filters |

Vap assumes 804th Test Group command

Col. Jason Vap, center, commander of the 804th Test Group, Arnold Engineering Development Complex, shakes hands with Col. Linc Bonner, the previous 804 TG commander, during a change of command ceremony June 21, 2022, in the Aircraft Test Support Facility at Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee. Also pictured are Col. Randel Gordon, left, AEDC commander, and Capt. Christopher Fernandez, guidon bearer. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jill Pickett)

Details Download

Vap assumes 804th Test Group command

Arnold Engineering Development Complex Commander Col. Randel Gordon, left, passes the 804th Test Group guidon to Col. Jason Vap charging him with command of the group during a change of command ceremony June 21, 2022, in the Aircraft Test Support Facility at Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee. Also pictured are Col. Linc Bonner, right, previous 804 TG commander, and Capt. Christopher Fernandez, guidon bearer. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jill Pickett)

Details Download

96th TW change of command

Brig. Gen. Scott Cain salutes the 96th Test Wing one final time during the wing’s change of command ceremony June 30 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. Brig. Gen. Jeff Geraghty took the reins of the wing from Brig. Gen. Scott Cain during the ceremony. (U.S. Air Force photo/Samuel King Jr.)

Details Download

96th TW change of command

Col. Joseph Augustine, 96th Test Wing vice commander, and the wing formation salute during the wing’s change of command ceremony June 30 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. Brig. Gen. Jeff Geraghty took the reins of the wing from Brig. Gen. Scott Cain during the ceremony. (U.S. Air Force photo/Samuel King Jr.)

Details Download

96th TW change of command

Brig. Gen. Jeff Geraghty speaks to the audience during the 96th Test Wing change of command ceremony June 30 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. This is Geraghty’s second assignment at Eglin. Between 2007 and 2009, he was a test pilot and flight commander with the 40th Flight Test Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Samuel King Jr.)

Details Download

96th TW change of command

Col. Joseph Augustine, 96th Test Wing vice commander, stands in front of a formation of groups at the wing’s change of command ceremony June 30 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. Brig. Gen. Jeff Geraghty took the reins of the wing from Brig. Gen. Scott Cain during the ceremony. (U.S. Air Force photo/Samuel King Jr.)

Details Download

96th TW change of command

Maj. Gen. Evan Dertein, Air Force Test Center commander, speaks to the audience during the 96th Test Wing change of command ceremony June 30 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. Brig. Gen. Jeff Geraghty took the reins of the wing from Brig. Gen. Scott Cain during the ceremony. (U.S. Air Force photo/Samuel King Jr.)

Details Download

96th TW change of command

Group guidons from 96th Test Wing stand in the salute position during the National Anthem at the wing’s change of command ceremony June 30 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. Brig. Gen. Jeff Geraghty took the reins of the wing from Brig. Gen. Scott Cain during the ceremony. (U.S. Air Force photo/Samuel King Jr.)

Details Download

96th TW change of command

Brig. Gen. Jeff Geraghty stands in front of his command during the 96th Test Wing change of command ceremony June 30 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. This is Geraghty’s second assignment at Eglin. Between 2007 and 2009, he was a test pilot and flight commander with the 40th Flight Test Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Samuel King Jr.)

Details Download

Transmission for the Mission: Edwards AFB's 412th Range Squadron uses telemetry sites for rapid data acquisition

With the installation of a new antenna at the 5790 Telemetry Site at Edwards Air Force Base, we give a closer look on how telemetry sites relay data from aircraft and how it's used for the mission.

Details Download

AEDC Spark Tank: Engineers study control system method for possible implementation

Will Garner, instrumentation, data and controls technical lead for the Test Information Systems Section of Arnold Engineering Development Complex, speaks June 9, 2022, about a proposal to use models for predictive control with Sawyer Gurganus, left, and Jason Corbett, both instrumentation, data and control engineering interns for an AEDC contractor at Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jill Pickett)

Details Download

AFTC Public Affairs

Col. Michael Baker, AFTC Vice Commander

Details Download

Orange Flag executes largest all-domain test focused on infrared spectrum

An F-35 Lightning II assigned to the 461st Flight Test Squadron takes off from Edwards Air Force Base, California, May 20. Sixteen airborne fighters and one testbed acted as either sensors or fifth-gen targets to characterize the DoD's state-of-the-art infrared kill chain performance, and continue developmental work in the infrared spectrum for both offensive and defensive capabilities during Orange Flag 22-2 June 23. (U.S. Air Force photo/Giancarlo Casem)

Details Download

AEDC expanding missile signature characterization capabilities

A multi-path, broadband infrared light source, foreground, and hyperspectral infrared imager are set up opposite each other with a towed airborne plume simulator burner installed in the High-Speed Fan Facility shooting a blast of fire and smoke between them during testing of the missile plume transmittance measurement system from Physical Sciences Inc. Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee, May 12, 2022. Another set of light source and imager were also set up at a different angle to complete the measurement system. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jill Pickett)

Details Download

AEDC expanding missile signature characterization capabilities

The missile plume transmittance measurement system, consisting of two multi-path, broadband infrared light source and two hyperspectral infrared imagers set up opposite each other, undergoes testing using a towed airborne plume simulator burner installed in the High-Speed Fan Facility shooting a blast of fire and smoke between them at Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee, May 12, 2022. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jill Pickett)

Details Download

AEDC expanding missile signature characterization capabilities

A multi-path, broadband infrared light source, foreground, and hyperspectral infrared imager are set up opposite each other with a towed airborne plume simulator burner installed in the High-Speed Fan Facility shooting a blast of fire and smoke between them during testing of the missile plume transmittance measurement system from Physical Sciences Inc. Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee, May 12, 2022. Another set of light source and imager were also set up at a different angle to complete the measurement system. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jill Pickett)

Details Download

AEDC expanding missile signature characterization capabilities

An AEDC test team conducts a test of the missile plume transmittance measurement system from Physical Sciences Inc. using the towed airborne plume simulator test stand at the High-Speed Fan Facility at Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee, May 12, 2022. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jill Pickett)

Details Download

AEDC expanding missile signature characterization capabilities

Scott Bender, product manager with Physical Sciences Inc., adjusts a multi-path, broadband infrared light source at the end of the first day of testing of the company's missile plume transmittance measurement system using the towed airborne plume simulator test stand at the High-Speed Fan Facility at Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee, May 10, 2022. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jill Pickett)

Details Download

AEDC expanding missile signature characterization capabilities

Arnold Engineering Development Complex team members swap out a depleted pyrophoric fuel tank for a full one in a towed airborne plume simulator burner at the High-Speed Fan Facility at Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee, May 10, 2022. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jill Pickett)

Details Download

AEDC expanding missile signature characterization capabilities

Arnold Engineering Development Complex team members swap out a depleted pyrophoric fuel tank for a full one in a towed airborne plume simulator burner at the High-Speed Fan Facility at Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee, May 10, 2022, during a test of the missile plume transmittance measurement system. The system was developed by Physical Sciences Inc. through a Small Business Innovation Research Program contract. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jill Pickett)

Details Download