Edwards Air Force Base News

Progress remains steady in the F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter's operational testing, reprogramming, fueling, and stand-up training, the F-35 program executive officer told an audience at Aviation Week's Defense Technologies and Requirements Conference here March 4. Software is, by its very nature, difficult to develop, the general said, ... (more)

This aerial photo depicts the original hangars and administrative buildings that were built in 1954 as they appeared in 2001 at what now will be known as the NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, redesignated in honor of the late Neil A. Armstrong.

NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center along the northwest edge of Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base has been renamed in honor of former research test pilot and NASA astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, the first man to step onto the surface of the moon during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.

Image Caption: Pogue relaxes on the running board of the transfer van during a visit to the Skylab 4/Saturn 1B space vehicle at Pad B, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

Two generations of aerospace engineering excellence will come together Saturday, March 1 when NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, is redesignated NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center.

David Peller of Silver Spring collects miniature badges that law enforcement agencies give out as souvenirs.

NASA Dryden's G-III Aerodynamic Research Test Bed retracts its landing gear after takeoff from Edwards Air Force Base on a baseline data-collection flight prior to undergoing modifications for the Adaptive Compliant Trailing Edge flight research project.

Minister Louis Farrakhan called for black Americans to set up their own court system based on the Bible and Quran to replace a U.S. legal system he accused of racial bias.

A Navy X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstration aircraft takes off and flies for the first time Feb. 4, 2011, at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

Soaring 20,000 feet above the ocean waves west of LAX put me at the intersection of two major transitions in the U.S. Air Force.

A passive, long-range sensor that searches for hard-to-detect targets has been tested for the first time on a Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet.

In a story that ran in The Press-Enterprise on Nov. 11, 2013, former U-2 pilot Cliff Beeler shared stories related to his service from 1958 to 1965.

Jacob Nelson and the Tone Wranglers will be performing March 21 at the Lancaster Municipal Stadium hosted by the Jethawks and the Los Angeles County Air Show organization.

NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, Md. - The Navy's Infrared Search and Track , a passive, long-range sensor that searches for and detects heat sources, successfully completed its first flight aboard an F/A-18 Super Hornet on Feb. 11, from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

A Wind Advisory is in effect from 10 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 18, until 10 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 19, for areas in the Kern County Mountains, according to the National Weather Service in Hanford.

Eglin Air Force Base officials announced Tuesday afternoon that the contractor killed in the Jan. 8 foam accident returned to the hangar against emergency responders advice.

The Minter Field Air Museum's annual Founder's Day Banquet will be held Feb. 22 at Hodel's Country Dining in northwest Bakersfield.

Image Caption: This look-down view of the X-29 research aircraft in flight over California's Mojave Desert during the 1980s and 1990s shows its striking and unique forward swept wing and canard design.

The F-35 Lightning II, also known as the Joint Strike Fighter, planes arrive at Edwards Air Force Base in California in this May 2010 file photo.

"And you'll see a very long runway right...there." Our aircraft commander jabbed a finger at a small, cross-hatched circle on the U.S. Air Force navigation chart.