SERVICE AWARD GIVEN TO RETIREE.Byline: Daily News EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE Edwards Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 301,000 acres (121,805 hectares), S Calif., NE of Lancaster; est. 1933. It is one of the largest air force bases in the United States and has the world's longest runway. - Walter A. Lipe was honored hon·or n. 1. High respect, as that shown for special merit; esteem: the honor shown to a Nobel laureate. 2. a. Good name; reputation. b. with a Outstanding Civilian Career Service Award when he retired after more than 40 years as a U.S. government employee. Lipe, the Air Force Flight Test Center's Instrumentation instrumentation, in music: see orchestra and orchestration. instrumentation In technology, the development and use of precise measuring, analysis, and control equipment. Division chief engineer since 1999, spent his last year performing the duties of the Instrumentation chief as well as the chief engineer. ``Your service has exceeded all expectations and you have set an example for others who serve,'' Maj. Gen. Curtis Bedke, the Flight Test Center commander, said in a farewell Farewell Auld Lang Syne closing song of New Year’s Eve. [Music: Leach, 91] extreme unction (last rites) anointing at the hour of death, sacrament of Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church. letter. Lipe's leadership in the design and development of advanced test instrumentation systems saved the Air Force well over $100 million by standardizing data acquisition systems and support equipment that would meet the needs of most major test ranges, Bedke said. Lipe received the Pioneer Award from the International Telemetry telemetry Highly automated communications process by which data are collected from instruments located at remote or inaccessible points and transmitted to receiving equipment for measurement, monitoring, display, and recording. Foundation for his career achievements, the first presentation of the award to an Edwards employee. Lipe, a Lancaster resident, started work at Edwards Air Force Base in 1961 as a contractor employee working on the B-52H bomber bomber Military aircraft designed to drop bombs on surface targets. Aerial bombardment can be traced to the Italo-Turkish War (1911), in which an Italian pilot dropped grenades on two Turkish targets. . He took a civil service job in 1963 as an instrumentation engineer. He was promoted to chief of the Instrumentation Engineering section in 1965, to chief of the Instrumentation Design Branch in 1980, and to chief of the Instrumentation Operations Branch in 1985. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: LIPE |
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