Robins Team To Adapt C-141 Methods to C-5: With the official retirement of the C-141 now passed, the 402nd Maintenance Group software support team at Warner Robins Air Logistics Center in Georgia is adapting its 141-process to the huge C-5 Galaxy, which actually has older cockpits. The team plans to adapt its avionics maintenance station—a simulation lab designed to test software upgrades and problems—to work on the C-5. Currently, the only way to test software and hardware changes for the C-5 is to fly the aircraft, says Sam Kenley, software support flight chief at the ALC.
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall doesn’t see great value in trying to break the Sentinel ICBM program off as a separate budget item the way the Navy has with its ballistic-missile submarine program, saying such a move wouldn’t create any new money for the Air Force to spend on other…