ARNOLD AFB, Tenn., Oct. 9 -- Arnold Air Force Base issued the following press release:
For nearly 50 years, Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee served as the sole location of what is now known as Arnold Engineering Development Complex.
That changed on Oct. 1, 1997, when Hypervelocity Wind Tunnel 9 in White Oak, Maryland, became an Air Force facility.
It has since operated under the AEDC umbrella.
"Tunnel 9 is indeed a national asset," said former Tunnel 9 Site Director Dan Marren in 2007. "The Navy originally built this capability to obtain design data for strategic systems development because there was no other facility in existence that could provide the physics and scale of the experiments they needed to solve the challenges they face...