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A joint Air Force-contractor test team completed developmental flight test of the C-5M Super Galaxy on 16 August. The two-year test program included verification of performance and reliability enhancements to the C-5's propulsion system, avionics, utilities and subsystems, flight controls, and airframe. Testing took place primarily at Lockheed Martin in Marietta, Georgia, and at the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards AFB, California. As testing was concluding, one of the three test aircraft that received both the Avionics Modernization Program and Reliability Enhancement and Re-engining Program updates was flown on a round-trip mission to Europe. Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation of the C-5M is scheduled to begin in third quarter 2009.
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