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- From: CMSgt Mike Bergman <bergman@afpan.pa.af.mil>
- Subject: AF News 12/21/92
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- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: Hq Air Force News Agency/SCC
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:34:52 GMT
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- From CMSgt Mike Bergman <bergman@afpan.pa.af.mil>
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- 957. KC-135 record
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- MCGUIRE AFB, N.J. (AFNS) -- An Air Mobility Command KC-135 set a new
- record with a non-stop, non-refueled flight Dec. 19 from Kadena AB, Japan, to
- McGuire in 17-hours, 31 minutes.
- The KC-135R is from the 97th Air Mobility Wing, Altus AFB, Okla. The
- flight was in conjunction with a regularly scheduled Pacific Tanker Task Force
- redeployment mission and set the record for aircraft in the gross weight
- category of 220,460 to 330,690 pounds.
- The flight was sanctioned by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale,
- an international organization based in Paris. The National Aeronautic
- Association, the U.S. representative organization of the FAI, had a
- representative aboard the aircraft to confirm the record.
- To span the more than 8,700 nautical miles from Kadena to McGuire, the
- aircraft departed with its maximum gross weight of 322,500 pounds -- 195,000
- pounds of fuel, 5,000 pounds of mission-essential cargo and the flight crew.
- The Altus crewmembers are:
- Capt. Jeff Kennedy, mission commander/instructor pilot.
- Capt. Robert Kilgore, aircraft commander.
- 1st Lt. John Isakson, pilot.
- Capt. Mark Hostetter, instructor navigator.
- 2nd Lt. Robert Fischer, navigator.
- MSgt. Temur Ablay, instructor boom operator.
- SMSgt. Daniel Deloy, instructor boom operator.
- Sgt. Steven Rowland, crew chief.
- SrA. Andrew Haynes, crew chief.
- A1C Jason Houk, crew chief.
- The Boeing KC-135R model aircraft used to set the record is the most
- recently modified of the KC-135s that first went into service in the 1950s.
- The KC-135R receives its thrust from four F108 engines, produced by CFM
- International, a joint company of General Electric and SNECMA. The quieter,
- more fuel-efficient engines use as much as 27 percent less fuel than the
- KC-135A models and allow the aircraft to take off with more fuel and carry it
- farther, which the Altus crew demonstrated with their record-setting flight.
- (Courtesy of AMC News Service)
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- 958. B-2 wing test
- PALMDALE, Calif. (AFNS) -- Engineers purposely cracked the wing of a B-2
- stealth bomber during stress tests Dec. 18.
- Full-scale structural testing resulted in the bomber's wing breaking
- under 1.6 times the maximum stress it is expected to experience during actual
- flight operations.
- Engineers intentionally stressed the airframe to failure in an attempt to
- determine the maximum load the bomber could sustain. The data will be used by
- B-2 designers as the aircraft ages in its various roles and missions.
- Two of the bombers have undergone intensive three-year battery of ground
- tests to assess the aircrafts structural strength.
- The testing was conducted at the Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale.
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