European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday november 29, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 9 base refuelling system really delivers by Bartle. Green staff writer in Ciurlik a Turkey when in comes to re fun clinic aircraft in Ciurlik a is in a class by ii self. No Only docs it have Safe s Only offshore fuel line hut it also is testing the most modern aircraft refuel ing system in the command. Our main fuel Supply comes from you Mutalik. Which is about 35 Miles away said tech sgt. Miguel Uffer noncommissioned officer in charge of storage and hydrants for 39th Supply so. It s a sea terminal. It s the Only sea terminal in a Safe operated and also manned by pol Petroleum Oil and lubricants  with in Ciurlik s aircraft refuelling system fuel trucks no longer must drive to the aircraft shelters on base to fill the jets. The centralized computer oper ated and computer controlled system can fuel 10 jets in under 20 minutes a task it would take fuel trucks an hour to Complete. As a fuel specialist in the pump House monitors the computer fuel flows from off Shore to storage tanks on base and through underground pipes into aircraft shelters where an aircraft Crew chief plugs nozzle into a Jet. This is the most modern system right now in Safe Uffer said. The system became operational at to Ciurlik in sep tember 1986. Uffer was part of the team that devel oped the heart of the system the pantograph trams Lin a Germany in 1981. Without the pantograph we could t have this system Uffer said. He marvels at the system s simplicity. The pantograph is a fuel delivery system consist ing of Metal pipes that connect to the aircraft and deliver the fuel. You can see it s just double pieces of pipe with swing joints and it swivels. It works very easy. It s stainless steel and it moves just like your Arm he said. The system Complete with pump House and 10 pantograph for the aircraft shelters on base Cost $2.6 Mil lion. Uffer said the system should pay for itself in five years. What we Are doing is cutting Down on the use of refuelling units. If you talk refuelling units you re talking maintenance which is quite expensive. All that amounts to a lot of time and  though unable to put a Dollar figure on the Sav Ings Uffer expects it to be substantial. One truck is $120,000 and for each shelter that s 10 trucks he said. You figure that s$1,200,000. How Long does a truck last compared to How Long this system is going to last and there s no maintenance hardly involved in the pantograph re s4s Pitolo by Sieve of Nso tech sgt. Uffer chief of storage and hydrant for 39th Supply so Cheeks Over an in Ciurlik pantograph. Fueling  the entire system has required ji50 in maintenance since coming on line and is expected to last a least 10 years Uffer said. It s  Uffer said. This is no idea of Engi neers. What we did was put 10 air planes Here i these shelters and we started refuelling  what once would have taken several trucks a hour to do was completed in just 17 minutes. Redundancies also arc built into the system so that refuelling can continue without skipping a boat should the base be attacked. Let s say an air plane Flics Over Here blows this place pump House to pieces Uffer said. That would t affect the operation because another pump House can take the operation of this pump House and do the same Job. We have a total of four systems Here and they arc each fully computerized. All i docs is reroute the fuel to another pipeline and into the same  with an unlimited fuel Supply constantly passing through the 35 Miles of pipeline and a modern control operations and delivery system  t be suffering Gas pains for a while. Netherlands oks raising Highway Speed limit the Hague Netherlands a the dutch government Friday decided to raise the Speed limit on this nation s highways from 100 Kilometres to 120 Kilometres 62 Miles to 74 Miles an hour next year a government spokesman said. The move which is scheduled to take effect next May. Will bring the Netherlands in line with its immediate neighbors where maximum speeds Range from 120 Kph 74 Mph in Belgium to a recommended 130kph 81 Mph in West Germany. In most other West european nations the maximum Speed on highways is 120 Kph 74 Mph or higher. Lower limits Arcin Force in three scandinavian countries and Greece. Massive violation of the 100-Kph 62 Mph limit Here As Well As the desire Loco me in line with neighbouring countries have been the main reasons Foi the dutch increase. The 100-Kilometer limit has become totally unenforceable said Jan Ratsma a spokesman for the dutch transport ministry whose chief Neelie Smit Kroes has been an ardent advocate for the increase. Friday s decision ended months of governmental wrangling Over the Speed limit in the Netherlands a hugely unpopular measure imposed after the 1973 Arab Oil embargo against this country. The controversy pitted environment ministered nil pcs who argued that an increase would Lead to More pollution against Smil Kroc who claimed hat the widespread violation of the limit led to  on Friday Nippels agreed with the 20 Kph 12-Mph increase on condition that it would be More stringently enforced than the current limit violation of which Seldom leads to a Fine. Raising of the other Speed limits in Force Here 80 Kph 50 Mph on two Lane highways and 50 Kph 30 Mph in built up areas is not at Issue Walsma said. In Brussels Belgium the european commission the common Market s executive body is preparing a proposal to come to an dec wide Speed limit of 120 Kph 74 Mph for highways. It is unclear when that proposal will be up for review by the dec s 12 member nations. Defense firm chief to plead guilty in fraud Case Miami a a defense contractor and its president have agreed to plead guilty to charges of passing off As new used electrical connectors for military aircraft a Federal prosecutor said Friday. Edward Neil Bonavia of South East connectors will plead guilty monday to racketeering and also will enter a plea of guilty to 30 counts of mail fraud on be half of the Miami company said assist ant . Attorney Frederick Mann. In addition Bonavia 40, agreed to pay $200,000 toward the Cost of the investigation and the company will pay $300,000 in fines Mann said. Under the plea bargain Bonavia also could receive up to 10 years in prison. He is being held in the metropolitan correctional institution South of Here. This company would overhaul used parts and attempt to sell them As new. These inferior parts ended up in missiles helicopters b-52s and even f-4 fighter  Mann said. The prosecutor said at the Lime of the indictment last december that it is not know ii whether the connectors Small plug like devices used to distribute electricity around an aircraft were responsible for any accidents. The connectors Are used in flight controls navigational systems and Arma ment controls the indictment said add ing that the reworked connectors were risky because they May Ork intermit  according to the indictment some of the parts were used in aircraft ejection scats and the under Wing bomb rails that carry sidewinder missiles. South East shipped the inferior parts Between 1982 and 1985 and had orders totalling $10 million at the time the com Pany was suspended from operation last year. Mann said. Two other South East executives have pleaded guilty to racketeering and mail fraud charges. Mann said. He added that another pleaded innocent and faces trial in september on 58 racketeering and mail fraud counts