Joint Flight Crew

Posted 17 October 2012

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Photo by Todd R. McQueen

The first C-5M Super Galaxy joint production acceptance flight with Lockheed Martin and the Defense Contract Management Agency flight operations personnel occurred on 17 October 2012 at the Lockheed Martin facilities in Marietta, Georgia. The joint aircrew included: (from left) TSgt. Jeremy Huff, flight engineer, Lt. Col. Robert Griffith, aircraft commander, MSgt. Garrad Mitchell, flight engineer, Butch Johnson, Lockheed Martin production pilot, Larry Frias and John Linville, flight engineers. Joint acceptance flight testing is expected to reduce total delivery time by two to four weeks.

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