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A Westover C-5 is marshalled into position during the 2000 Rodeo at McChord Air Force Base, Wash. This year, members of the 439th Airlift Wing will return to McChord for the 2007 Air Mobility Command Rodeo competition, scheduled for July 22-28.


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A Westover C-5 is marshalled into position during the 2000 Rodeo at McChord Air Force Base, Wash. This year, members of the 439th Airlift Wing will return to McChord for the 2007 Air Mobility Command Rodeo competition, scheduled for July 22-28.

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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.