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Laws Allowing Establishment of Arnold Engineering Development Center Turn 70
October 21, 2019
ARNOLD AIR FORCE BASE, Tennessee, Oct. 21 -- The U.S. Air Force issued the following news:

It was 70 years ago this month that President Harry S. Truman signed legislation that paved the way for the establishment of Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC).

On Oct. 27 and 28, 1949, Truman signed the Unitary Wind Tunnel Plan Act and the Air Engineering Development Center Act of 1949. The first bill authorized a unitary plan for the construction of transonic and supe . . .

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