• AFRL Technology Improves Firefighting Vehicles

    AFRL engineers developed a revolutionary new firefighting technology that will pave the way for a new generation of smaller, leaner, air-transportable fire trucks. The basis of the technology is a system for delivering ultra-high-pressure (UHP) agents to combat aircraft fuel fires--a capability that

  • AFRL Researchers Perform C-130 Functional Tip Tank Tests

    AFRL worked in conjunction with Snow Aviation to perform tests on a modified C-130E aircraft fitted with functional tip tanks, eight-bladed NP2000 propellers, and extended dorsal and rudder surfaces. During the testing, which involved multiple flights, researchers measured tip tank impact on stall

  • AFRL leader receives Defense Distinguished Civilian Award

    The Air Force Research Laboratory's Dr. William U. Borger has earned the elite Defense Distinguished Civilian Award. Deputy Secretary of Defense, Mr. Gordon England, presented the award to Dr. Borger Nov. 7, at a ceremony held at the Pentagon. This award is the highest honor given by the Secretary

  • Bldg. 20055 remediation to begin Monday

    Members of the 88th Air Base Wing's Environmental Management Division of Civil Engineering will begin work Monday to clean out residual solvent left in the soil beneath bldg. 20055 in Area B. Building 20055, which dates back to World War II, once housed the second human test centrifuge of the

  • AFRL completes testing of CMC aft fairing heat shield subcomponents

    The Air Force Research Laboratory's Materials and Manufacturing Directorate here, under a Dual Use Science and Technology program with Boeing Company, has successfully completed design and the first steps of testing an oxide-oxide ceramic matrix composite material for use as aft fairing heat shields

  • Engineers test actively cooled CMC Panels for rocket and scramjet engines

    Researchers have successfully completed environmental testing on actively cooled ceramic matrix composite panels in both rocket and scramjet rigs, proving that the materials have the durability necessary for these extreme environments. The ceramic matrix composite (CMC) testing, directed by Air

  • AFMC environmental award nominees

    Five Air Force Materiel Command units have been nominated for the Air Force General Thomas D. White Environmental Awards. The units are the 516th Aeronautical Systems Group, Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio; the 96th Civil Engineer Group, Eglin AFB, Fla.; the 75th CEG, Hill

  • 754 ELSG holds Combined Federal Campaign fundraiser

    October is a very famous month. The first "Oktoberfest" took place in Munich, in 1810. The Earp brothers faced off against the Clanton-McLaury gang in a legendary shootout at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Ariz., Oct. 26, 1881. Like the Earp brothers, the Production & Repair Maintenance Section and