PRSRT STD US POSTAGE PAID TULLAHOMA TN Vol. 67, No. 16 Arnold AFB, Tenn. PERMIT NO. 29 August 17, 2020 Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force visits Arnold AFB Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. Stephen Wilson Lt. Col. Adam Quick, left, director of the Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) looks at materials tested in the Space Threat Assessment Space and Missile Branch, briefs Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. Stephen Wilson Testbed at Arnold Air Force Base as Kellye Burns, an Arnold as they walk through part of the arc heater facility Aug. 11 at Arnold Air Force Base. Arc Engineering Development Complex space test engineer heaters allow for the testing of thermal protection systems in simulated environments briefs him Aug. 11. Wilson visited STAT, arc heaters, the 16- representative of hypersonic flight.(U.S. Air Force photo by Jill Pickett) foot Transonic Wind Tunnel and the C-2 engine test cell while at Arnold AFB. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jill Pickett) Air Force conducts latest hypersonic weapon flight test By Giancarlo Casem ground stations. The 412th Test Wing Public test verified system Affairs integration with the B-52 launch platform EDWARDS AIR and telemetry while FORCE BASE, Calif. practicing concepts of – The Air Force took operations that will be another step towards utilized during its first fielding a hypersonic Booster Test Flight lat- weapon following its er this year. final captive-carry test “This is a major of the AGM-183A Air- milestone for the pro- launched Rapid Re- gram, the team and our sponse Weapon under a Air Force,” said Brig. wing of a B-52 Strato- Gen. Heath Collins, fortress off the South- Air Force Program ern California coast, Executive Officer for Aug 8. Weapons. “ARRW is The flight resulted the first step in bring- in the successful trans- ing game-changing hy- mission of telemetry personic capabilities to and GPS data from the our Warfighters.” AGM-183A IMV-2 The ARRW program Staff Sgt. Jacob Puente, 912th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, helps line up the AGM-183A Air-launched (Instrumented Mea- is a rapid prototyping Rapid Response Weapon Instrumented Measurement Vehicle 2 as it is loaded under the wing of a B-52H surement Vehicle) to Stratofortress at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Aug. 6. The ARRW IMV-2 successfully completed a cap- Point Mugu Sea Range See HYPERSONIC, page 6 tive carry test off the Southern California coast, Aug. 8. (Air Force photo by Giancarlo Casem) 2020 AEDC Fellows announced By AEDC Fellows Committee and the induction banquet, engines to jet propulsion. As London in 1940, he returned to normally held on June 25 each the director of Wright Field’s Wright Field as the chief of the COFFEE COUNTY, Tenn. year. June 25 is the birthday of experimental engineering op- experimental engineering sec- – The Arnold Community General of the Air Force Henry erations, he skillfully balanced tion and remained in that job Council AEDC Fellows Com- “Hap” Arnold, the only Airman the desires of dreamers, design- until the end of World War II. mittee, chaired by AEDC Fel- to hold five-star rank, and the ers and operators. He was at the center of every low retired Maj. Gen. Mike Wi- anniversary of the dedication Carroll was born in 1893 in major experiment and engi- edemer, is proud to announce of AEDC by President Harry S. Washington, Indiana. He re- neering project there during the four new AEDC fellows to be Truman in 1951. ceived a Bachelor of Science war. inducted later this year. The Fellows committee degree from the University Carroll oversaw the creation They are: retired Maj. Gen. hopes to hold the 2020 AEDC of Illinois in 1916 and began of the world’s most advanced Franklin O. Carroll, AEDC’s Fellows induction banquet on his military career the same wind tunnels and laboratories first commander, as an Honor- Aug. 25, if conditions allow. year with the Illinois National for aeromedical research, com- ary Fellow; Dr. Greg Power as Attendance will be limited. Maj. Gen. Franklin O. Carroll Guard Horse Cavalry. He com- munications, navigation and a Technical Fellow; Daniel R. pleted flight training at Kelly radar, which later became the Catalano as a Craft Fellow; and Maj. Gen. Franklin first commander. His career Field, Texas, in 1917 and was Air Force Institute for Technol- Ramesh Chandra Gulati as a O. Carroll spanned nearly the first half- assigned there as a flight in- ogy. He also oversaw the intro- Lifetime Achievement Fellow. century of military aeronautics. structor. duction of the first jet engine at They join 103 AEDC Fel- Maj. Gen. Franklin Otis He witnessed a revolution In 1939, he was assigned to Wright Field. lows elected for this honor Carroll was a visionary leader in aircraft design, materials, Wright Field, Ohio, as chief of He made the tough engineer- since the Fellows program be- who made significant contri- performance and manufactur- the experimental engineering ing decisions that translated gan in 1989. butions to aviation and to the ing and was instrumental in section’s research and develop- The COVID-19 pandemic American war effort in World guiding the U.S. Air Force’s ment branch. After a short stint See FELLOWS, page 5 postponed the announcement War II and served as AEDC’s transition from reciprocating as assistant military attaché in AEDC Fellow Glen Lazalier Arnold AFB Combating Airman delays retires after 55 years Trafficking in Persons program retirement, helps AEDC meet manager urges awareness COVID-19 challenge …Page 2 …Page 3 …Page 4 2 • August 17, 2020 Arnold AEDC Fellow Glen Lazalier retires after 55 years Air Force By Deidre Moon ing the development and Base AEDC Public Affairs application of a number of air-breathing and rocket Though he has dabbled propulsion system alti- in retirement once before, tude test and evaluation leaving Arnold Air Force methodologies. He was Base for a short period in also recognized for lead- 2004, Glen Lazalier is now ing a two-pronged effort officially retired from Ar- to establish an interim fix nold Engineering Devel- to an unacceptable noise opment Complex. Col. Jeffrey Geraghty problem restricting the test Commander Lazalier, an AEDC Fel- capability for the YF119, low, departed his latest developing and demon- Jason Austin role as a technical subject strating the country’s first Chief, matter expert at Arnold exhaust gas handling sys- Public Affairs AFB on July 31, after a ca- tem for vectoring turbine reer spanning just over 55 engine operation in alti- years. tude cells, as well as de- Lazalier began as an Richard Tighe veloping changes to plant General Manager, analysis engineer in Aero- operation and maintenance National Aerospace propulsion in June 1965, procedures in the AEDC Solutions working to pilot a liquid Aeropropulsion Systems High Mach Staff: air injection methodol- Test Facility (ASTF). ogy to extend the cold Lazalier has been part Glen Lazalier, then-subject matter expert at Arnold Air Force Base, poses for Kathy Jacobsen, temperature range of tur- a photo at Arnold July 27. Lazalier retired July 31 from Arnold after close to 55 NAS Executive Editor of and witness to many years with AEDC. (U.S. Air Force photo by Deidre Moon) (This image has been bine engine test cells. The successful projects over altered by obscuring a badge for security purposes.) Jill Pickett methodology developed the years. NAS Editor was used routinely in the “Early in my career Fahrenheit at extremely makes sense that he has AEDC Commander, Col. High Mach is published by Engine Test Facility test (1966), AEDC tested the rich fuel to oxidizer ratios not one, but many memo- Jeffrey Geraghty. Lakeway Publishers, Inc. a pri- cells until the tie line to boilerplate for the second and is used to recover met- rable moments that will “Col. Geraghty is one vate firm in no way connected the Aeropropulsion Sys- stage of the Apollo vehicle als from steel furnace dust. stick with him. of the best commanders with the U.S. Air Force, Arnold tems Test Facility air sup- that placed the first man on This combustor employs “I really can’t select a we’ve had in a long time,” Air Force Base, Arnold Engi- neering Development Complex ply plant with local expan- the moon,” Lazalier said. and controls a complex single time, event or action Lazalier said. “He’s smart, (AEDC) or National Aerospace sion turbines eliminated “The J-4 rocket test cell vortex recirculation path inside or outside the fence good, listens and does. Solutions (NAS), under exclu- the need. was the premier rocket test that is found in aerospace that constitutes the ‘most He’s definitely in the top sive written contract with NAS This is only one of sev- cell in the world and made technology. The other is memorable moment,’” echelon of commanders at Arnold AFB, Tenn., 37389. Everything advertised in eral areas where Lazalier absolutely essential contri- a natural gas combustor he said. “Rather, it’s the I’ve seen here in my 55 this publication will be made worked during his time at butions to the knowledge with a very short combus- aggregation of all those years.” available for purchase, use Arnold. base needed to get to the tion length. Both of these times, events and actions Lazalier said his biggest or patronage without regard “In the early 1970s, moon.” were tested at the Univer- that together are the very accomplishments outside to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital sta- I went to the technology In the late 1960s and sity of Tennessee Space important consequences of of AEDC are his children, tus, physical handicap, political group and worked in tech- the early 1970s, Lazalier Institute.