• National Park Service joins Air Force in honoring Wright Brothers

    Air Force and National Park Service leaders gathered in Dayton Dec. 17 to honor the 107th anniversary of the first successful heavier-than-air powered flight by the Wright Brothers.Dean Alexander, superintendent of the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historic Park, called the brothers achievement

  • Airmen offer a safe ride home

    There is a small group of young men and women here willing to give up time with their families over the holidays so that others can come and go safely.Apparently, they read the Air Force handbook on "Service before Self."The Wright-Patterson group of Airmen Against Drunk Driving reports nearly 700

  • AFOSR-supported scientist leads heat-resistant ceramic coatings research

    AFOSR-supported research at the University of Arizona is investigating high temperature resistant ceramic coatings that will provide thermal protection for Air Force hypersonic flight vehicles.The research team led by Dr. Erica Corral of the University of Arizona is using advanced chemical synthesis

  • Harlem Globetrotters, Slick Willie Shaw, to visit WPAFB

    The Harlem Globetrotters will visit the Prairies Child Youth Complex on December 17, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Their purpose is aimed at sharing their successful educational program for youth called "C.H.E.E.R. for Character."They will share the benefits of character development for youth. The CHEER

  • Tiny MAVs for Hazard Detection

    Air Force Research Laboraotry-sponsored researcher and Harvard University professor Dr. Robert Wood is leading the way to what could become the next phase of high-performance micro air vehicles for the Air Force. His basic research is on track to evolve into robotic, insect-scale devices for

  • Adaptive Control for Aero-Optical Compensation

    AIr Force Research Laboratory Small Business Innovation Research addressed the Air Force requirement for robust adaptive optics beam control in airborne laser directed energy systems, a capability enabling such systems to maintain optical quality throughout a laser's traverse of its path from

  • Materials Innovation Amplifies Terahertz Power and Performance

    Air Force Research Laboratory materials experts' discovery that single-walled [carbon] nanotubes boost terahertz imaging capabilities resolves a fundamental limitation in the lab's Hazardous Material Identification System. That directed energy system has heretofore generated its terahertz beam via

  • Fuels Researchers Flock to Aquatic Feedstock

    Given that "flocculation" is an essential step in amassing aquatic microalgae for subsequent harvest as biofuel feedstock, a lab-sponsored program at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez is researching methods for efficiently performing this all-important concentrating/partitioning process. The

  • STEM Puts Students in the Driver's "SEAT"

    A cross-directorate collaboration of scientists and engineers is engaging with Dayton, Ohio, high school students as part of a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics endeavor managed by Noble Solutions and sponsored locally by the Air Force Research Laboratory. As the program name