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Flight testing of the latest flight control software developed for the C-5 Avionics Modernization Program was completed on 10 September. Fifteen flights totaling seventy-one hours were made from Dobbins ARB, Georgia, during the Block 1.2 software test program, including eleven flights totaling forty-seven hours in the C-5B test aircraft and four flights totaling twenty-four hours in the first C-5A modified under AMP. Block 1.2 is the second of four major AMP software builds and provides additional capability to the Galaxys digital automatic flight control and flight management systems. Flight testing of the next software build, Block 2.1, began in early fall. |