AFRL scientists, engineers promote STEM careers at WPAFB Spring Job Shadow Day

by Patrick Londergan | May 28, 2024 | Aerospace

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – Scientists and engineers from across the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, helped to inspire the next generation of STEM professionals at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, or WPAFB, Spring Job Shadow Day, March...

AFRL researchers pave the way to lighter, faster additively manufactured rocket engines

by Patrick Londergan | Apr 22, 2024 | Aerospace

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Rocket Propulsion Division, recently designed, printed, built and hot fired a first-ever, single-block rocket-engine thrust chamber additively manufactured using a process called laser...

University students to present new aerospace propulsion concepts at Air Force Museum

by Patrick Londergan | Apr 15, 2024 | Aerospace

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – The Aerospace Propulsion Outreach Program, or APOP, will hold its 15th annual symposium and poster session at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, April 19, 2024, from noon to 3 p.m. The...

AFRL members recognized for accomplishments at 2023 annual awards ceremony

by Patrick Londergan | Mar 26, 2024 | News, Space

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) — The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, held its annual awards ceremony to recognize top performers of 2023 at the AFRL Annual Awards Ceremony March 19, 2024, at the Air Force Institute of Technology’s Kenney...

AFRL engineer selected as Combustion Institute Class of 2024 Fellow

by Patrick Londergan | Mar 20, 2024 | Aerospace

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – Dr. Timothy Ombrello, of the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, was recognized as a 2024 Combustion Institute, or CI, Fellow, in a Feb. 28, 2024 news release. “Selection shows long-time productive participation in...