Edwards Air Force Base News

Wednesday is the day reserved for Americans to pause and pay tribute to the military men and women who have served this country.

Most of us have clean forgotten about the Atlantic hurricane season, dud that it has been this year.

Former Los Angeles area gang member Jose Barraza reminded Montgomery city and business leaders how their influence can change lives during his speech at the River Region Forum Oct.

Julie Zouzounis was 7 years old the day in 1972 she answered the door to a group of uniformed military men who came to report that her dad was missing in action.

The Air Force could begin soliciting public input as early as next month on Luke Air Force Base's potential for housing the new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

The Navy's top admiral told a think-tank audience yesterday he wants more unmanned aircraft in the sea service , and he wants 'em in a hurry.

The so-called space elevator is the future goal of this week's In a major test of the concept, robotic machines powered by laser beams will try to climb a cable suspended from a helicopter hovering more than a half-mile high at Edwards Air Force Base.

October 30, 2009, 7:00 AM / Hires/Promotions/ Honors Chiampou Travis Besaw and Kershner, an Amherst accounting firm, named Brittany Hillery and Candace Kuechler staff accountants.

Flight test programs at Edwards Air Force Base and NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center usually are off-limits to outsiders, but we got a peek at one of its coolest programs, the X-48B, when the Air Force recently threw open the gates for an open house.

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boeing Co. an $84 million contract to make additional avionics software upgrades to its B-1 bomber fleet, the company announced Thursday.

William Morris Brown, Jr., was born January 9, 1914 in Runge, Texas, the first of six children to Hettie Linder and William Brown, Sr.

Though Boeing is gearing up for two demanding commercial-jet, flight-test programs next year, it plans to lay off 200 to 300 people out of more than 4,000 working flight test in the Puget Sound region.

You would think that an unpiloted space plane built to rocket spaceward from Florida atop an Atlas booster, circle the planet for an extended time, then land on autopilot on a California runway would be big news.

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center image shows on-orbit functions for the reusable X-37 space plane, now under the wing of the U.S. Air Force.

Taxi drivers have beaded seat covers. Sports fans have vinyl-covered foam. Soon, aircrews will have their own high-tech seat cushions to keep them comfortable on long-distance missions.

An F-22 Raptor jet shrieked across the desert sky, it's eardrum-puncturing exhaust rivaled only by its impossibly pointed turns.

More than 100,000 people streamed into Edwards Air Force Base Saturday to join in a celebration of aviation and flight test history during Flight Test Nation 2009, the base's open house and air show.

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The show will start with a bang as retired Air Force Gen. Chuck Yeager, the first man to break the sound barrier, attempts to do so once again -- but this time in an F-35. Edwards Air Force Base officials said they are excited about the show which is scheduled to have jets, vintage airplanes and war birds flying high.

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