Story by Jill Pickett | Arnold Engineering Development Complex | 08.09.2023
Recently, Arnold Engineering Development Complex test personnel had a chance to return to the basics of scientific research, if hypersonic flight research is ever basic. Led by Dr. Michael Spottswood, with the Aerospace Systems Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory, a small research group came to the von Kármán Gas Dynamics Facility, or VKF, at Arnold Air Force Base to study the......
Story by Deidre R Moon | Arnold Engineering Development Complex | 03.24.2022
The hardware making up the Arnold Engineering Development Complex Tunnel E facility has been scrapped, leaving behind a mostly empty room in the building that also houses Tunnel D at the von Kármán Gas Dynamics Facility at Arnold Air Force Base. It hasn’t been an active wind tunnel in years, so the very existence of Tunnel E is not known by many current AEDC employees....