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Captain (CAPT) Larry Bowers, Air Force test director, right, and Mayford Clayton, a test facility craftsman, discuss a model of an extended range Standard missile, Type II (SM-2ER) during an aerodynamic characteristic test at the Arnold Engineering Development Center

Captain (CAPT) Larry Bowers, Air Force test director, right, and Mayfo...

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CAPT. Bill Tuck Jr., left, and Frank Keeny, ARO project engineer, examine a B-1 bomber model undergoing transonic wind tunnel testing at the Arnold Engineering Development Center. The tests are being conducted to examine the ability of various fairings to improve the quality of the airflow over the aircraft`s wing where it joins the fuselage

CAPT. Bill Tuck Jr., left, and Frank Keeny, ARO project engineer, exam...

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Jack Walker, a General Dynamics engineer, left, and Al Brooks, a test facility craftsman for ARO Inc., examine an advanced design concept of a fighter aircraft in the four-foot transonic wind tunnel at the Arnold Engineering Development Center

Jack Walker, a General Dynamics engineer, left, and Al Brooks, a test ...

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Jack Walker, a General Dynamics engineer, right, and Al Brooks, a test facility craftsman for ARO Inc., examine an advanced design concept of a fighter aircraft in the four-foot transonic wind tunnel at the Arnold Engineering Development Center

Jack Walker, a General Dynamics engineer, right, and Al Brooks, a test...

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Frank Urbaniak, an ARO Inc. engineer examines a model of a space shuttle orbiter and launch vehicle in a wind tunnel at the Arnold Engineering Development Center

Frank Urbaniak, an ARO Inc. engineer examines a model of a space shutt...

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Captain (CPT) William Tuck Jr., left, an Air Force test director, and Frank Urbaniak, an ARO Inc. engineer, examine a model of a space shuttle orbiter and launch vehicle prior to a transonic wind tunnel at the Arnold Engineering Development Center

Captain (CPT) William Tuck Jr., left, an Air Force test director, and ...

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R.T. Smith, a contract supervisor with ARO Inc., left, and Lieutenant (LT) J.M. McGee, an Air Force test director, examine re-entry test equipment at the Arnold Engineering Development Center.  The equipment duplicates the temperatures and pressures associated with atmospheric re-entry

R.T. Smith, a contract supervisor with ARO Inc., left, and Lieutenant ...

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An ARO Inc. engineer makes a bomb rack adjustment on a model of an F-111 aircraft in the four-foot transonic wind tunnel test at the Arnold Engineering Development Center

An ARO Inc. engineer makes a bomb rack adjustment on a model of an F-1...

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A composite photo of a water-cooled nose tip of a re-entry vehicle during a test in the re-entry test facility at the Arnold Engineering Development Center.  A stream of super-heated, high velocity air is being directed against the nose tip

A composite photo of a water-cooled nose tip of a re-entry vehicle dur...

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John Land, an ARO Inc. test facility craftsman, examines the nose tip of a simulated re-entry vehicle prior to a wind tunnel test at the Arnold Engineering Development Center

John Land, an ARO Inc. test facility craftsman, examines the nose tip ...

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Jack Culpepper, an ARO Inc. test facility craftsman, checks the alignment of a instrumented flow field survey proble on a model in a wind tunnel test at the Arnold Engineering Development Center

Jack Culpepper, an ARO Inc. test facility craftsman, checks the alignm...

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Jack Culpepper, an ARO Inc. test facility craftsman, inspects a model of a laser-guided bomb in a wind tunnel at the Arnold Engineering Development Center

Jack Culpepper, an ARO Inc. test facility craftsman, inspects a model ...

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An ARO Inc. test facility craftsman, makes an adjustment on a half-scale model of an aircraft ejection seat prior to a wind tunnel test at the Arnold Engineering Development Center

An ARO Inc. test facility craftsman, makes an adjustment on a half-sca...

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Technicians X-ray a United Technologies Chemical Systems Division solid-propellant rocket motor prior to testing at the Arnold Engineering Development Center. The rocket will be used as the main propulsion unit for the Space Shuttle's Inertial Upper Stage

Technicians X-ray a United Technologies Chemical Systems Division soli...

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Artist's concept of parasol wing design by Boeing Military Airplane Co., part of a study to develop an advanced strike fighter. "Favorable interference" between the engine nacelles and the wing helps the craft to cruise at three times the speed of sound. Arnold Engineering Development Center, Arnold Air Force Station, Tennessee

Artist's concept of parasol wing design by Boeing Military Airplane Co...

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A supersonic wind tunnel with side wall removed to show flexible plate nozzle at the Arnold Engineering Development Center

A supersonic wind tunnel with side wall removed to show flexible plate...

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A scale model of an MX undergoes a wind tunnel test at the Arnold Engineering Development Center

A scale model of an MX undergoes a wind tunnel test at the Arnold Engi...

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Aerial view of the Aeropropulsion System Test Facility (ASTF) in the Arnold Engineering Development Center. The ASTF, presently under construction, will provide a greatly expanded advanced jet engine test capability

Aerial view of the Aeropropulsion System Test Facility (ASTF) in the A...

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Technicians discuss a scale model of an advanced forward-swept wing configuration aircraft in a test wind tunnel at the Arnold Engineering Development Center

Technicians discuss a scale model of an advanced forward-swept wing co...

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Technicians discuss an MX scale model in a test wind tunnel at the Arnold Engineering Development Center

Technicians discuss an MX scale model in a test wind tunnel at the Arn...

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Technicians discuss an F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft model in a test wind tunnel at the Engineering Development Center. The model holds an assortment of armament models

Technicians discuss an F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft model in a test w...

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A technician at the Arnold Engineering Development Center adjusts the argon gas velocimeter, prior to a test in a one-foot transonic wind tunnel

A technician at the Arnold Engineering Development Center adjusts the ...

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A close-up view of the transpiration cooled missile nosetip of a test projectile being checked by test project manager Gil Jones. The projectile was captured in four rails of a recovery device during the Arnold Engineering Development Center's 1,000-foot hyperballistic range test

A close-up view of the transpiration cooled missile nosetip of a test ...

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Engineering check an MX Stage Two rocket motor at the Arnold Engineering Development Center, prior to test firing

Engineering check an MX Stage Two rocket motor at the Arnold Engineeri...

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An aerial view of the Aero-propulsion System Test Facility presently under construction at the Arnold Engineering and Development Center. The test facility will provide a more advanced jet engine test capability

An aerial view of the Aero-propulsion System Test Facility presently u...

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Personnel inspect a wedge model at the nozzle end of an arc heater in the new test facility at Arnold Engineering Development Center. From left to right are Al Dietz, Air Force Facility Planning Division, Captain Terry Hall, Air Force Directorate for Flight Dynamics Test and engineers J.B. Patton and Joe Henson

Personnel inspect a wedge model at the nozzle end of an arc heater in ...

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A view of the F110-GE-100 engine installed in the Arnold Engineering Development Center's (AEDC) Engine Test Facility J-2 Cell after recently completed development testing. From left to right is Don Davidson, project manager, Julian Harris, General Electric representative, and Captain Joe Peloguin, AEDC Air Force project manager

A view of the F110-GE-100 engine installed in the Arnold Engineering D...

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Marilyn Felch, controls systems engineer, works on the T-2 Test Cell Westinghouse Test Area Control 2D3451A computer. The control system tests tactical engines in the T-2 cell at Arnold Engineering Development Center

Marilyn Felch, controls systems engineer, works on the T-2 Test Cell W...

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Fisheye lens view of, from left: TECH. SGT. Paul Scharfenberger, DOPD/Propulsion Testing; Doug Dixon, instrumentation controls engineer; Marilyn Felch, controls system engineer and Joel Wood, work element engineer. The engineers are reviewing the TAC computer system check list of the T-2 Test Cell Westinghouse Test Area Control 2D03451A computer at the Arnold Engineering Development Center

Fisheye lens view of, from left: TECH. SGT. Paul Scharfenberger, DOPD/...

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