• Wing commander addresses housing surplus at town meeting

    Col. Colleen Ryan, 88th Air Base Wing commander, held a town meeting Nov. 13 in Chapel 1 to confront growing speculation that some Wright-Patterson housing was set to be demolished. "Not today, not tomorrow, not in the next year," said Col. Ryan rebutting the notion that a demolition project was

  • Base financial service hours change

    The 88th Comptroller Squadron's Financial Services Office is changing customer service lobby and phone hours to 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday. The change is effective Dec. 1, 2007 and means Airmen, civilian employees and retirees seeking in-person or telephone assistance with financial

  • Improved Crystals Transition for Laser Technology Demonstration

    AFRL researchers managed an innovative research and development (R&D) effort conducted with BAE Systems, Inc., that achieved a tenfold increase in the energy-per-pulse performance of zinc germanium diphosphide (ZnGeP2) crystals--important components in the construction of high-power (and now,

  • AFRL Develops Portable Covert Airfield Lighting System

    AFRL engineers worked under a Small Business Innovation Research grant with Optical Research Associates (Pasadena, California) to design and develop a portable covert airfield lighting system (PCALS) based on light-emitting diode (LED) technology rather than conventional incandescent bulbs. The

  • X-48B Blended-Wing Body Test Vehicle Takes Flight

    The AFRL, Boeing, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) jointly developed X-48B Blended-Wing Body (BWB) research vehicle made a successful maiden flight at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (Edwards Air Force Base, California). The test aircraft--an 8.5% scale, remotely