European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 4, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes . Monday tuesday july 4/5,1994troubled c-17 shows Airlift Power by the associated press Mcchord Aib Wash. Mere at Rodeo �?T94, a gathering of military Airlift specialists from around the world thet>17 military cargo plane is the Star attraction. A Small crowd of fliers contractors and journalists watched As maj. Timothy Bend. Or put the c-17 through a Battery of ground and air Maneu vers. It Wasny to quite Jike a thunderbird air show but for a lumbering cargo plane that looks like a Gray whale with wings the c-17 put on a surprising display of agility. Y. A this air plane is Rock solid a Bender said after parking the c-17 Globe master 111 next to the old c-124. A Alt is the smoothest anti easiest plane in be Ever unfortunately for Mcdonnell Douglas corp., builder of the $533 million aircraft the reviews from Washington arc not quite so glowing. Cost overruns and a Host of technical shortcomings have placed the c-17 on probation. An earlier plan to buy 120 of the air lifters has been scaled Down to 40,. By november 1995, the Clinton administration will decide whether to go beyond 40 or buy a commercial alternative such As the modified Boeing 747 cargo plane built nearby in the Seattle area. A it makes great sense to keep All of our options open a said air Force Gen. Ronald a Fogleman chief of the air mobility come. In a news conference in the belly of the c-17, Kugleman said the Craft is performing Welt and is clearly needed. The question is Cost a a a Quot a a a but while Fogleman. Is officially undecided the air Force a from Secretary a Sheila avid Nall Down to the c-17 Crews out of Charleston fab , a wants the plane. Arid president Clinton has to worry about the 35,000 jobs in politically critical California that depend on the program. A a a a a. A a. The c-17 comes along at a time when a shrinking . Military increasingly de a mands Airlift to get soldiers and weapons to. Remote hot spots. ,. The aircraft combines the attributes of its predecessors in one package like the propeller driven c-130 la Crauf amps it can land on Short unpaved airfields but carries much More cargo. Like the 1960s-Era a 141 Star lifter a plane so old its wings Are starting to crack the c-17 can be refuelled. In flight but can carry larger vehicles. Like the Gigantic c-5 Galaxy the c-17 can carry an my tank a Patriot missile Battery and other outsize cargo but is much More Maneu Merable on the ground enabling More an air Force c-17 transport starts to go through its paces at Mcchord fab Wash., in View of mount Rainier last week. New Bird characteristics of the air Force c-17 Globe master ill military transport plane a Cost $533 million each or $21.3 billion for 40 Mcdonnell Douglas corp., Long Beach Calif. A general appearance squat wide body overhead swept Back wings with near vertical singlets on the tips to shaped Tail four Wing mounted engines rear cargo door and ramp. A special characteristics capable of in flight refuelling can Back up on ground Able to land on 3,qq0foot dirt runways. A a a a a wingspan 165feet a length 174 feet fuselage diameter 22 feet 6 inches. A engines tour Pratt amp Whitney. F117-pw-100 engines each with 40,700 pounds of thrust. A cargo Bay 68 feet Long 18 feet wide. A maximum payload 172,200 a duds. A Gross weight fully loaded 585.000�� pounds. A a a a a a Range with 157,000 pounds of payload 2,400 nautical mites. A Landing Field length whys / �7 maximum payload 3,000 feet. A planes delivered 13 of 26 on order. A a a. A a a of decaf 1995 defense budget 7 House and Senate Bills contain funding for six More planes and Advance procurement Money Tor eight in 1996. Source a. A. Planes to unload at a time. The c-17 has a modern a a Glass cockpit with computer screens arid a display that lets the Pilot look out the window and see key gauges at the same time. The cargo Bay is designed for simplicity. A Crew of three can Fly the plane compared with five in older air lifters. Quot it s like a Cadillac. Its got All the bins and .whistles,7 said master sgt. Steve Honda c-17 Lon master. But the c-17 comes with a Cadillac Price $533 million per plane based on the current plan of buying 40 aircraft for $21.3 billion. And it comes with a laundry list of problems that have Cost millions to solve wings that failed stress tests an outmoded design system and engines that Cost More and burned fuel faster than anticipated. As with ail major defense programs the Cost of each c-17 will go Down the More the. Pentagon buys As research and dead Ozment costs Are spread Over More aircraft the problem is coming up with enough Money to buy in Quantity. To the Crews who Fly military cargo the Issue is starkly simple the Airlift Fleet is aging. The c-141, which the c-17 is designed to replace was the first Jet powered transport built air Force. Copt. Keith Whyte a c-141 Pilotr tits if this Way Quot id like to Fly something maybe a Little younger than me. First lady urges teachers to continue pushing for Universal health coverage new Orleans a with All the trappings of a political convention Hillary Rodham Clinton rallied nearly 10,000 teachers and school employees to redouble their efforts in the fight for Universal health care. A the struggle to insure every american is far from Over a the first lady said sunday. Addressing the National education associations annual convention the first lady made no mention that a key congressional committee approved a Bill saturday that would leave millions of americans without health insurance. But the setback to the Glinton administration plan was an undercurrent in her remarks. A this debate will come Down to whether or not the Congress of the United states is Able to near and see the problems in front of their eyes and extend health insurance coverage to every american or whether they will hear the Well organized voices of opposition a she said. A a done to want to hear any More stories about children dying being turned away being Given less care than 1 would expect for my own daughter because their parents done to have health insurance.�?�. She could not have found a More sym pathetic audience. The 2.2 million Mem Ernea has been solidly behind the administrations plan from the Start. Convention delegates were asked to flood Capitol Hill mailboxes with reprinted postcards demanding that any health care Reform Bill include Universal coverage and employer paid insurance. Quot she said everything i wanted to hear a said Blaine Paradise an English teacher at a Tucson ariz., Middle school. A was a teacher we see children whose Only Contact with the medical profession is the school nurse and there a not much the school nurse can do a maybe give out band aids or make referrals a he said. A a. Children Are preoccupied with their ailments As opposed to the. Academic. Goals of the Day said Dawn Greenwood a first Grade teacher in the Boston suburb of Reading mass., said. A was much As people thinks it just hits the inner City it truly has extended into the . The. Senate labor and human resources committee and two House panels have approved legislation designed to provide coverage for All americans and require businesses to finance coverage for their workers. The Senate finance committees Bill docs neither. Its now up to democratic leaders in the Senate and House to Rnold the Bills into ones that can gain support from a majority of both houses. Clinton has promised to veto any Bill that does not provide Universal coverage. A the first Lacey asked the Nea delegates., to work even harder to convince Congress that Universal coverage is essential. A life May have risen from asteroid dust new York a. A huge ring of asteroid dust encircles the Sun and orbits it a study suggests. The ring May have helped tile develop on Earth. A. The Earth is embedded in the ring just ahead of a bulging dust Cloud. The ring May help deliver dust from ground up asteroids to Earth researchers say. The dust is Rich in Carbon compounds that could have been among the Basic building blocks of life researcher Sumita Jayaraman said. Dust deposited billions of years ago by the ring might have helped life get started said Jayaraman a graduate student in astronomy at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Jayaraman and colleagues including astronomy professor Stanley f. Dermott reported the work in thursdays Issue of1 the journal nature. Quot a
