Robins Team To Adapt C-141 Method
s to C-5: With the official retirement of the C-141 now passed, the 402nd Maintenance Group software support team at Warner Robins Air Logistics Center in Georgia is adapting its 141-process to the huge C-5 Galaxy, which actually has older cockpits. The team plans to adapt its avionics maintenance station—a simulation lab designed to test software upgrades and problems—to work on the C-5. Currently, the only way to test software and hardware changes for the C-5 is to fly the aircraft, says Sam Kenley, software support flight chief at the ALC.
Northrop Grumman test fired its newest solid rocket motor Dec. 4, part of an internally funded effort to rapidly design and build SRMs using advanced manufacturing techniques.
