European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse April 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 All vital data contained in tighter units computer by Dave Diehl Bureau Raf England fighter pilots and Jet mechanics Are among the people Here at the 48th tac fighter Wing who Are putting Down their pencils and hanging up their phones in favor of one of the most innovative computer systems in the air Robert the Man in charge of flying operations at has reason to be excited with the system they Call wombs Wing operations management information with the touch of a Sponeybarger can find out where his planes what shape there who flying them and whether its going to Lakenheath wombs computer will be the Model for similar systems at other Safe the sys devised several years combines information from flying weather and other functions at the base that help keep its 82 Al 1 is in the the Best thing about wombs is that it ties the maintenance and support functions together so we can build our daily flying schedule better and Sponeybarger the computers Are More a Quality than Tim saving addition to the he thirty six computer terminals throughout the base allow every user of the system to keep an Check on the wings aircraft and flying Sponeybarger said what used to take hundreds of forms and dozens of phone Calls can now be done at a touch of a Joseph Sponeybarger said the wombs cuts from five to one the number of phone Calls needed for an air Crew to launch an air he said the weather forecasters As the base used to take As Many As 60 phone Calls a Day from air Crews to give them All the same weather by using computer the pilots can get the cur rent weather forecasts in the soon to be expanded to in clude More than 80 has turned Heads from photo by Dave Diehl Jeanne a maintenance control Section Job at a wombs Safe he and the tac air come to the office of the Secretary of the Oneo faking system will be adopted throughout the air forces european bases within two years and May also be used in the Sapere said the idea ran into a Little opposition with the Lakenheath maintenance All the work that is done on the bases air planes is organized and scheduled by the Job control Section and Sapere said some of the Bosses there didst think they could replace their plexiglass boards and grease pencils with a computer some said you automate a Sapere you can with this the Job control Center now uses about half a dozen of the terminals in its operations chief master Robert the noncommissioned officer in charge of the maintenance operations said the computers have helped his people get air planes fixed faster without wading through As much we can see where we need to put the he that took hours we can now do it in Tom one of four people who Are continually programming and updating the said 95 percent of the information in the wombs system can be used at other he said the wombs system is without it All depends on How cosmic you want to elections a photo Fivey Earold Brooke Matthews and her Mother enjoy an Outing on London Harefield Hospital youngest hear lung patient Fine transplant Cost makes Mother sick7 London a Brooke the 5yearold girl from who is the worlds youngest hear lung transplant is recovering nicely from the but her family is Short of her Mother said Deborah said the Cost of the March 4 opera Tion was almost double the that had been raised to pay for i Felt really sick when they told Matthews said in an interview outside London Harefield where the sur Gery took Brooke is so Well and but now we have this to mar it for As Matthews Brooke played happily on swings and a slide on the hospitals she was wearing Pink a Pink jacket and a Pinafore Brooke first got worldwide attention when her Rob was charged with holding up a Mcdonalds restaurant in Melbourne last december to raise Money for the he has pleaded an australian Farmer and others on the continent later donated the Money for the Brooke and her Mother now live in a nearby and Brooke walks or cycles the 1 round trip to the Hospital for daily she is very she is very and she is quite a hand when you Tell her she does it anyway because she knows she Matthews she is doing everything she she is cramming things in because she never could Matthews said the Hospital had told her before she left Australia that the operation would Cost now she has been told the Bill will be Between and would not have come Halfway around the world with Only half of the expecting the operation to be if i had she Hospital spokesman Jonathan Brooke said he had no re Cord of Matthews Ever being quoted it is difficult to quote any Price in Advance because each operation is differ he Washington elections will be held in some Louisiana parishes on May not All jurisdictions will and the offices affected these special elections involve runoffs from March 30 in some jurisdictions will be considering tax and Bond members of the armed forces and the merchant Marine and government employees employed out Side the United and their Are eligible to vote in these no Federal they must Regis Ter to vote and must mail a completed Federal Post card application to the City or county clerk in their county of Home if procedural information is not available write to the director of the Federal voting assistance office of the Secretary of room or Call auf Ovon 2244928 or commercial 202 task Force says Democrat won seat in Indiana House Washington up a House task Force rejected the idea of a special election monday and on a 2 1 part line vote recommended seating Democrat Frank Mccloskey in the nations longest running House the seat for the 8th congressional District in South Ern Indiana has been vacant since waiting for a report on one of the closest elections this the House run recount was the first in 24 during a meeting punctuated by loud voices and occasional the task Force approved a report that the beat Republican Rick Mclntyre by four to state officials have said Mclntyre won the election by 34 votes and a state recount by Leon the task Force chair said a vote in the House is possible next gop leaders met monday to discuss How to handle the
