EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. – The C-5M Super Galaxy undergoes extreme heat and ultraviolet exposure during the Re-engining and Reliability Program at the McKinley Climactic Laboratory Oct. 21 through Nov. 17. Some of the unique challenges the laboratory crew faced was getting the C-5M inside the hangar. Some of the hangar piping is hangs lower than the C-5 tail creating an obstacle for the crew moving it inside the hangar. They needed to lower the tail-end of the airplane within inches of touching the ground and jacked up the front-end in order to get the right leverage. Because the airplane’s size, the solar panels had to be constructed after the C-5 was loaded rather than have everything pre-constructed.
Staff Sgt. Stacia Zachary
2007-11-04 17:04:00
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