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A C-5B Galaxy, assigned to the 439th Airlift Wing at Westover Air Reserve Base, taxies from the flight line for a local training mission. The 439th regularly deploys USAF's largest aircraft worldwide. The massive C-5's unmatched airlift capability brings outsize cargo to any point on the globe. Westover's aerial port reservists continue to be deployed throughout this year to Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan -- one of the world's largest overseas bases. (US Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Andrew Biscoe)


Taxiing titan

A C-5B Galaxy, assigned to the 439th Airlift Wing at Westover Air Reserve Base, taxies from the flight line for a local training mission. The 439th regularly deploys USAF's largest aircraft worldwide. The massive C-5's unmatched airlift capability brings outsize cargo to any point on the globe. Westover's aerial port reservists continue to be deployed throughout this year to Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan -- one of the world's largest overseas bases. (US Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Andrew Biscoe)

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The last C-5B in the Air Force inventory takes off from Westover Jan. 18. The aircraft, tail number 87-0043, headed to Lockheed-Martin to get its second life as a modernized C-5M. The plane rose into the morning fog, as vapor and clouds clustered around its wings.
Mr. Gary Surozenski, a metal technician, in the 439th Maintenance Squadron, sets up the milling machine with the CAD data instructions to create the new C-5 elevator support bracket.
This is the 100 pound hunk of aluminum that will be machined down by the Westover maintainers into a six pound C-5 elevator support bracket.
Mr. Gary Surozenski and Tech Sgt. Richard Towlson stand at the opening of the milling machine doing intricate measurements of the wax first-run copy of the C-5 elevator support bracket.
Mr. Gary Surozenski and Tech Sgt. Richard Towlson stand at the opening of the milling machine doing intricate measurements of the wax first-run copy of the C-5 elevator support bracket.
Mr. Gary Surozenski and Tech Sgt. Richard Towlson stand at the opening of the milling machine doing intricate measurements of the wax first-run copy of the C-5 elevator support bracket.