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Local Man Assigned To Galaxy TransportALTUS, Otola.Keeping the world’s largest aircraft in flying shape will soon be , the job of Sgt. Gary M. Hollowich. son of Mr. and Mrs. Steven Hollowich, 406 RoanokeAve ^ ^The first operational C-5 Galaxy, huge jet transport that experts say will revolutionize military air transportation, was delivered Dec. 17 to the Military Airlift Command (MAC) at Alt* us AFB, Okla., where Sgt. Hollowich is a machinist. He w:ll eupport. aircraft used to provide C-5 aircrew flight training.Hollowich participated in acceptance ceremonies that also commemorated the Dec. 17 anniversary of the first powered flight by Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk, N.C., in 1903.The Galaxy is so big that the first time Sgt. Hollowich walks the length of the cargo compartment, he will have traveled farther than Orville Wright flew on his historic first flight of 120 feet. The C-5’s main cargo section is 121.1 feet long.If asked to help move the pant jet into the center of an average open-end college football stadium, Hollowich would have to be careful. Its 247-foot length would overlap the 10-yard fcines, its 223-foot wing span would extend beyond the front row seats on both sidelines and the top of the 65-foot tail section would be above the eye level of upper deck fans.Use of the Galaxy will enaMe the Air Force to airlift Army units with all their combat equipment, including tanks,heavy equipment and vehicles. It can transport nearly 99 per cent of the equipment of an Army division. For rapid deployment around the world, the Galaxy can carry 350 fully equipped men and can double that number by the addition of « third deck:Incorporating some of the most advanced technology in aviation history, the £*5 has an automatic trouble-shooting syst tem that monitors some 800 check points to forewarn of possible malfunction. It can be operated from short unimproved airfieWs.• » m • r*l -I .1:1. u____Gary M. HollowichLanding gears on the 28-wheel aircraft cau be retracted so that the plane can “kneel” in three different angles for easy cargo loading and unloading. An automatic terrain-following radar system permits “tree top level” flight to avoid enemy radar and -assure safe approach to and departure from air drop and landing zones in rough terrain, even at night and in bad weather.Powered by four gigantic new engines that produce a combined 44,400 pounds of thrust, compared with the 3,000 pounds thrust of early U.S. jet fighters, the Galaxy can carry a maximum payload of 132.5 tons, util-iliiing both upper and lower decks. It can* speed 110 tons a distance of 3,000 nautical miles in seven hours or 56 tons, 5,500 miles m 12 and one-half hours. The C-5 has a cruising speed of more than 500 miles an hour and is capable of being refueled in flight.Sgt. Hollowich is a 1964 graduate of Edwardsville High School.’His wife, Phyllis,-is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Dumstorff of Breese.ASSISTANT PROGRAM DIRECTOR RESIGNSPhillip L. Eckert, assistant program director for the Stu-, dent Work and Financial Assis-' tnce‘Office at Southern’ Illinois ITrdvM'Rft.v in. EHwarrisvillc '.has
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Edwardsville Intelligencer
Edwardsville, Illinois, US
Wed, Dec 24, 1969
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