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C-5B being prepared for flight parked on a Westover flightline. (US Air Force photo/Airmen 1st Class Brown)


C-5B at Westover

C-5B being prepared for flight parked on a Westover flightline. (US Air Force photo/Airmen 1st Class Brown)

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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.
Tech Sgt. Richard Towlson stands 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, metal technician checks the line by line coding of the converted CAD program file on the milling machine's control panel.