Hard Landing
This single panel cartoon created in pen-and-ink and digitally colored depicts the non-realistic surprise of how the runway reacts to a “heavy” C-5.The humor being the unexpected, but familiar, reaction of the C-5 acting like a child stopping quickly on a throw rug as he skids across it at a run rather than a hard surface. The morale cartoon was created for the Westover ARB internal audience for the Patriot magazine, website and social media. (U.S. Air Force artwork/William C. Pope)