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The New F-l 5 Eagle
Special Ceremony Set
New F-l 5 Arrives
At Robins Friday
The long awaited arrival of
the first F-15 aircraft for depot
maintenance at the Warner
Robins Air logistics Center
will be celebrated with a
special ceremony this Friday,
May 30.
While the sleek new Eagle
will not be the first F-15 to
touch down here, it will herald
the beginning of the Warner
Robins ALC’s new main
tenance workload for the
aircraft It will be used as a
prototype for Directorate of
Maintenance Engineers to
study in preparation for their
future task of performing
periodic maintenance for the
entire fleet of some 700 F-15s
The Middle Georgia public
caught its first glimpse of the
F-15 last November when one
was flown in for static display
during an open house ob
servation.
Maj. Gen Ralph T Holland,
the Warner Robins ALC
commander has invited for
the historic occasion many
distinguished visitors from
surrounding communities
along with high-ranking of
ficials of the Air Force
t/igistics Command and the
Air Force Systems Command
News media personnel will
be along to report on this mile
stone in the 34-year history of
Robins AFB.
Preceding the plane's
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arrival, a luncheon is planned
for 1 p m for the guests in the
ballroom of the Robins AFB
Officers’ Open Mess.
Col. Jay Edwards, chief of
the Directorate of Materiel
Management, will brief
visitors about the new air
craft. He will show the impact
of F-15 management and
maintenance workloads on the
Middle Georgia area
A special Air Force film,
highlighting accomplishments
$4.6 Million Robins
Contract Awarded
A $4.6 million contract to
supply a mechanized
materials handling system for
the Directorate of
Distributions Avionics
Warehouse at the Warner
Robins Air Logistics Center
has been awarded to a Tulsa,
Okla . firm.
It was the largest contract
ever awarded in the Air Force
Logistics Command for
equipment of this type, and
the largest ever handled by
the Robins Directorate of
Procurement.
The successful bidder was
Clay Bernard Systems In
ternational Limited of Tulsa
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of the F-15 in its Project
Streak Eagle tests, will be
shown.
Guests will then leave by
bus for the flight operations
area to await the plane’s
arrival. The F-15 will make a
pass or two over the airfield
and will taxi to a position in
front of Bldg. 110 where a
special welcoming ceremony
will be staged.
The pilot, Lt. Col. Roger
Smith, is scheduled to receive
The new equipment will help
make the 320,000 square foot
Warner Robins ALC avionics
warehouse one of the most
sophisticated of its kind in the
armed services.
The equipment will help
support the re-work and
repair of all avionics items in
the Air Force. The plan calls
for a pneumatic tube system
to carry smaller items from
various warehouse locations
to a central pickup point, and
may ultimately move them
right into maintenance work
centers located near the
warehouse.
A Warehouse Inventory
Control System (WICS) will be
the heartbeat of the operation,
controlling the movement of
several wireguided vehicles,
designed to make the most of
storage space.
Small to medium sized
items will be picked up by an
operator who is automatically
taken to the correct locations
by a wire-guided vehicle
which easily travels through
narrow aisles without the help
of an operator. WICS sets up
the sequence of stops, raises it
to the right height, and a
display board inside tells the
operator how many to pick up
or bin.
Side-loading, wire-guided
forklifts will also save space
and eliminate the need for lifts.
a plaque from Gen. Holland. It /
will recognize him for having
delivered the aircraft from the
Edwards AFB, Calif., Flight
Test Center.
Col. Smith is credited with
breaking three of the speed
and altitude records of the F
-15 achieved during its tests.
He is among the crew of the
Air Force’s top test pilots who
put the F-15 through its trials
that established it as the
world’s best air superiority
fighter system
Most remarkable is that the
aircraft experienced no ac
cident during its intensive
flight test performance.
Logistical responsibility for
the F-15 was assigned to the
Warner Robins ALC as far
back as March, 1969 That was
before the plane was built and
prior to contract award for its
construction. The McDonnell-
Douglas Corporation of St.
Louis, Mo., some nine months
later -- in December, 1969
won a highly competitive
award for its construction.
The wheels of F-15 logistical
management began turning at
Robins virtually from the date
of the announced respon
sibility. Extensive planning
and activity have gone into
what is expected to require a
force of more than 1,000
Warner Robins ALC personnel
to spend full time in the
logistical upkeep of the air
craft and its highly
sophisticated avionic
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GEfIERAL TELEPHORE
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During Past Fiscal Year
Grants-ln-Aid Total
$16,300,000 In Houston
From a dollars and cents standpoint, how much
did Federal grants-in-aid and revenue sharing
produce for Houston County in the past fiscal
year?
Did the price it had to pay for these grants, by
way of taxes allocated to the programs, make
them worthwhile financially?
Under the various types of aid available - there
are hundreds of them -- assistance is offered to
states and local communities for purposes
ranging from welfare grants and child care to
road building and education.
The cost to some localities, in the past year,
proved to be greater than the aid received. Others
got back more than they put in.
A comprehensive state-by-state study of the
programs, based upon Treasury Department
figures, was made by the Tax Foundation, a non
profit research organization that keeps watch
over government taxation and spending.
A breakdown of its figures indicates that the
amount of aid received by Houston County was
relatively large.
An estimated $16,300,000 went to the local area
in the year under a variety of aid programs.
V
In the State of Georgia as a whole, the grants
totaled $1,114,000,000, the Government’s figures
show.
The amounts refer only to grants-in-aid and
revenue sharing and do not include Federal
spending in local areas for goods and services.
As to the cost of the benefits received, the Tax
Foundation finds that some $878,000,000 of the
taxes collected throughout the state went into the
aid programs.
Houston County’s share of the cost was ap
proximately $12,877,000, exclusive of matching
funds.
Nationally, the figures show, $38.5 billion was
distributed in grants-in-aid and $6.1 billion in
revenue sharing, a total of $44.6 billion.
In 23 states the costs exceeded the grants
received. The other 27 states came out on the plus
side.
Indiana was the biggest loser, paying $1.58 for
every $1 that was returned. Alaska was the chief
gainer, paying only 36 cents per $1 of aid.
The inequity is attributed to the fact that some
communities need more aid than others.