FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee ~ 29 NOV 2011

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[Kathy in Alaska]

 

 

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Road Trip: Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee

Arnold Air Force Base (ICAO: KAYX, FAA LID: AYX) is a United States Air Force base located in Coffee and Franklin counties, Tennessee, adjacent to the city of Tullahoma. It is named for General Henry "Hap" Arnold, the father of the U.S. Air Force.

The base is home to the Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC), the most advanced and largest complex of flight simulation test facilities in the world. The center operates 58 aerodynamic and propulsion wind tunnels, rocket and turbine engine test cells, space environmental chambers, arc heaters, ballistic ranges and other specialized units. AEDC is an Air Force Materiel Command organization.

Twenty-seven of the Arnold Engineering Development Center's test units have capabilities unmatched elsewhere in the United States; 14 are unique in the world.  Facilities can simulate flight conditions from sea level to 300 miles and from subsonic velocities to Mach 20.

The AEDC is an Air Force Materiel Command facility and an important national resource.  It has contributed to the development of practically every one of the nation's top priority aerospace programs including the Atlas, Titan, Minuteman and Peacekeeper ICBMs, the space shuttle, space station, and Projects Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. 

The von Karman Gas Dynamics Facility has three continuous-flow units, Tunnels A, B and C. The tunnels are used extensively to obtain large aerodynamic and aerothermodynamic databases that are used to develop supersonic and hypersonic flight vehicles. Virtually every high-speed flight vehicle has required testing in Tunnels A/B/C, from reentry and tactical vehicles and space capsules, to the X-planes and winged vehicles.

The Aeropropulsion Systems Test Facility at the Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center, located at the Arnold Air Force Base in southern Middle Tennessee, is a unique national facility designed to test aircraft propulsion systems in true mission environments without leaving the ground. 

ASTF provides the United States with the unique test capability of simulating flight conditions at altitudes up to 75,000 feet, at speeds up to Mach 2.3, for engines rated up to 100,000 pounds of thrust. 

Learn More About Arnold Air Force Base HERE!

Situated in a picturesque campus-style setting adjacent to the Tullahoma, Tennessee Regional Airport is the Beechcraft Heritage Museum.

An attractive blend of authentically restored early American log structures and modern museum-quality construction, this 60,000 square foot facility currently houses more that two-dozen aircraft, plus many aviation artifacts and memorabilia for the enjoyment of Members and visitors.

Visit The Beechcraft Heritage Museum HERE!

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Hawaii...((HUGS))...whatever you do, don’t let Plover see the weather predictions. It’s beem COLD for several weeks, and now they say a big, WARM storm is coming thru and we could have 35 degree weather and RAIN, then get COLD again. Please, no rain. the city will be an ice skating rink and the stupid people will cause accidents.

Have you had any sun lately?

[radu]

Hey there Kathy. I figured it would ring a bell before long. :-)

Yes, they do a lot of neat stuff at Arnold. Pretty much if it flies, some aspect of it has been developed and/or tested there. When they test large engines, we can hear the roar out here at the farm......and we’re about 15 miles from the base.

[darkwing104]

Good Eveng Canteen FReepers!

Air Force Bump

[AZamericonnie]

Rest In Peace our Heroes

Il Silenzio

Let Them In St. Peter

[luvie]

Get your rest, dear Sis! (((hugs)))

[luvie]

Hey! Good to see YOU! (((hugs)))

[luvie]

Good evening! Hope you had a good holiday weekend! :)

[WVNan]

Hi Kathy, Tullahoma was near where my grandparents lived when I was a child. There was an Army training base there named Camp Forest. It was also a prison camp for foreign prisoners. I recall vividly riding past the camp for what seemed like miles and seeing all the soldiers, jeeps, tanks, and aircraft. It was a wonder to me.

My brother who spent the summer at our grandparents in 1942 was playing in the woods on my grandfather's farm when he encountered soldiers, who for some reason were training there. He took water to them. He was the big hero with his friends because he had helped our brave soldiers during the big war.

I also remember the base when the war was over. It became a dumping place for all the used up tanks,airplanes, and other war scrap that was left. It was miles of skeletons of equipment and planes. I thought it was sad to throw away all those good planes. Eventually the hundreds of acres that had been the training base was nothing but pasture. Then they built Arnold, but not in the same spot.

Ah memories.....I can still see those scenes so clearly and feel the wonder that the little girl experienced at the awesomeness of it all.

Soldiers at Camp Forest 1942.

[luvie]

Now?

[luvie]

Yes?

[BIGLOOK]

Aloha again Night Owl! ((Hugs))

Haven't seen Lonesome Plover or his little sandpiper buddies in days even though we have sun here. There's been a fierce chilly wind lately that probably has them vacationing on the Kona side.

[radu]

Hey there LUV! Good to see you, too. (((hugz))) backatcha

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, WVNan...so glad you stopped in and shared your memories. Very interesting.

That is so cool about your brother being a hero for sharing water with the soldiers. Times have changed, and not necessarily for the better.

[WVNan]

Thanks for jarring lose some of my childhood memories. Goodnight and God bless.

[Kathy in Alaska]

wh!!

Thanks, unique, for the roadies!

Luv.....#50!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

God Bless you good, Nan, and rest well.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Vacationing in the sun is a good idea. Who wants to be cold!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, dduck...hope retirement is treating you well.

Were you ever at Arnold AFB?

[Kathy in Alaska]

[E.G.C.]

A very pleasant good morning to everyone at the Canteen and to all our military at home and abroad. Thanks for your service to our country.

((HUGS))Good morning, Ladies. Thanks for this morning's thread, Lauren. How's it going?