Air Force Flight Test Center Commander Maj. Gen. Curtis Bedke recently paid his first visit to Arnold Engineering Development Center, Arnold AFS, Tenn., after which he told Shelbyville (Tenn.) Times-Gazette that it delivers “more diverse capability” than he realized. Bedke said, “I knew it as the wind tunnel place.”
Fresh off its most ambitious test yet of an autonomous cargo plane, the Air Force is preparing to go even bigger by deploying and operating another such aircraft for an entire year.