75th Anniversary

BRAD HICKS AEDC Contributor On the morning of June 25, 1951, then-U.S. President Harry S. Truman arrived in middle Tennessee. His plane, the Independence, which was the 1950s version of…

BRAD HICKS AEDC Contributor On Oct. 27 and 28, 1949, then-President Harry S. Truman signed the Unitary Wind Tunnel Plan Act of 1949. The first bill authorized a unitary plan…

BRAD HICKS AEDC Contributor After the Scientific Advisory Group’s May 1945 survey of German facilities was completed, American scientist and group member Frank Wattendorf remained in Europe to document his…

A decade before Arnold Engineering Development Complex was dedicated and several years before the establishment of the U.S. Air Force, Gen. Henry “Hap” Arnold was in England to assess production during World War II.