Civic leaders see Edwards flight test mission up close

Official Statements

• 412th Test Wing, November 12: “Fifteen civic leaders from across the nation visited Edwards Air Force Base, California, Nov. 3-5, for an immersion tour with Lt. Gen. Linda Hurry, Air Force Materiel Command commander. During the three-day visit, community leaders built partnerships, shared perspectives, walked the historic lakebed and gained firsthand insight into the installation’s cutting-edge flight-test mission. George Welsh, Flight Test Museum director, briefs Air Force Materiel Command civic leaders on the history of the 412th Test Wing during their immersion tour at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Nov. 3.”

• 412th Test Wing, November 12: “Col. Tom Tauer, 412th Test Wing commander, speaks with Jeff Hoagland, Air Force Materiel Command civic leader, by the compass rose during an immersion tour at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Nov. 3. The compass rose is a 4,000-foot-wide, magnetic-free directional marker painted on Rogers Dry Lakebed, used for aircraft navigation testing. Lt. Gen. Linda Hurry, Air Force Materiel Command commander, checks an Emerging Technologies Integrated Test Force prototype during a civic leader immersion tour at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Nov. 5.”

• 412th Test Wing, November 12: “Col. Tom Tauer, 412th Test Wing commander, briefs Air Force Materiel Command civic leaders from across the nation and Lt. Gen. Linda Hurry, AFMC commander, at Rogers Dry Lakebed during their immersion tour at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Nov. 3. The lakebed is a flat, hard-packed, stable surface that enabled decades of critical aerospace technology development.”

• 412th Test Wing, November 12: “Lt. Gen. Linda Hurry, Air Force Materiel Command commander, shakes hands with Rachel Kinard, Air Force Test Pilot School director of research, following Kinard’s briefing on the X-62 Vista to 15 AFMC civic leaders during their immersion tour at Edwards Air Force Base, California, Nov. 3. The X-62 Vista is a highly advanced experimental aircraft used for flight-testing autonomy and super intelligence.”

• 412th Test Wing, November 12: “Grayson Ardies and Bryan Faulk, Air Force Materiel Command civic leaders, get a close-up look at a T‑7 Red Hawk cockpit with Maj. Robert Ritchie, 416th Flight Test Squadron, during their immersion tour at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Nov. 5. Lt. Col. Timothy Grace, 419th Flight Test Squadron commander, briefs Air Force Materiel Command civic leaders from across the nation on the B-52 Stratofortress modernization program during their immersion tour at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Nov. 5.”