CHECKLIST Folios OK NO Headlines OK NO Cutlines OK NO NA Mugs OK NO NA Graphics OK NO NA Stories end OK NO Jumplines OK NO NA Ads OK NO NA NO=Not OK; NA=Not applicable Reprint Y N Initials 1 Refurbishing gives C-17s … A BOOSTPAGES 12-13 TAILWIND Tailwind | Travis AFB, Calif. Friday, February 28, 2020 | Vol. 45, Number 9 z Jazz giant played, recorded at Travis PAGE 2 z Innovation powers project for generators PAGE 3 CHECKLIST CHECKLIST Folios OK NO Folios OK NO Headlines OK NO Headlines OK NO Cutlines OK NO NA Cutlines OK NO NA Mugs OK NO NA Mugs OK NO NA Graphics OK NO NA Graphics OK NO NA Stories end OK NO Stories end OK NO Jumplines OK NO NA Jumplines OK NO NA Ads OK NO NA Ads OK NO NA NO=Not OK; NA=Not applicable NO=Not OK; NA=Not applicable Reprint Y N Reprint Y N Initials 2 Initials 3 2 TAILWIND TRAVIS FEBRUARY 28, 2020 FEBRUARY 28, 2020 TRAVIS TAILWIND 3 Jazz giant APPEARING IN PERSON MARCH 4, 1958 Innovation spurs project for new power generators Tech. Sgt. Liliana Moreno performed, 621ST CONTINGENCY RESPONSE WING PUBLIC AFFAIRS In its continuing effort to become recorded more light, lean and lethal, Airmen from the 821st Contingency Response Group assigned to Travis Air Force Base in Cal- live album ifornia, continue to advance the concept of a smaller power generator, with the ca- pability to support contingency response at Travis missions and Joint Services across the entire Global Air Distribution Network. Nick DeCicco On Feb. 3, Airmen from the U.S. Air 60TH AIR MOBILITY WING PUBLIC AFFAIRS Force Expeditionary Center at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, All right, all you hep cats and the 821st Contingency Response Sup- and kittens, let’s swing on back port Squadron, met at Scaled Power’s test to March 4, 1958, at Travis Air facility in San Francisco, California, for a Force Base, California. turbo generator demonstration which is Get on your finest rags be- in line with and completes phase-one of cause tonight we’re trucking a three-phase Research, Development, over to the NCO Club to see Test and Evaluation project. Duke Ellington. You dig? “The 821st CRG devised a plan to ex- “The Duke,” who died in plore power production alternatives to 1974, was one of the most im- the current base operations support gen- portant figures in the history erators, the 30kW MEP-805 and the of American jazz. A pianist and 60kW MEP-806, which are bulky in size, prolific composer, Ellington’s reliability rates are below standard and career spanned 60 years, from they spread across multiple pallet po- his early, steady appearances sitions on an aircraft,” said 1st Lt. Jack at the Cotton Club in New York Robinson, 821st CRSS civil engineer of- City in the 1920s to decades as ficer. “This is a noteworthy project that the leader a touring ensemble advances an initiative that will not only U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Liliana Moreno around the world. meet the needs of the CRG power produc- Tech. Sgt. Anthony Bennett and 1st Lt. Jack Robinson, both with the 821st Contingency Response Support Squadron, discuss the It’s a legacy so expansive that tion and transportation requirements, but capabilities of a mobile power generator with Greg Thomas, Scaled Power lead propulsion engineer, during a demonstration at Scaled his 1958 show at Travis – the U.S. Army photo it will also have the potential to be fielded Power’s test facility Feb. 3 in San Francisco. first of three at the base, with throughout the military as a whole once others Oct. 11, 1962 and Sept. 20, complete.” 821st CRSS commander. “To see the de- Contracting Command. potential to transform the way that the 1964 – is just one brief beat in the The original idea was submitted by velopment of their idea get championed “Scaled Power’s solution is the first CRW and the Department of Defense uti- long song of his career. F F the 821st CRSS power production shop and funded to this point helps to re-en- of its kind, boasting 30kW turbine pow- lizes and deploys power generation capa- Details of the shows have through the base’s Phoenix Spark pro- force the notion that ideas from the field er output in such a small size while re- bility worldwide.” been lost over time. However, DUKE ELLINGTON gram. on ways to improve how business is done maining multi fuel capable,” Robinson To initiate Phase I, AFWERX and the 1958 performance was re- “This concept started at the shop level are taken seriously.” said. “Once fully developed, the contin- U.S. Transportation Command commit- corded. It stayed unreleased for AND HIS ORCHESTRA by the Airmen that work with the equip- In April 2019, the project was award- gency response wing will be able to ship ted $120,000 each using Small Business See ELLINGTON Page 22 ment and knew there was a better way to ed to Scaled Power and is currently man- eight 30kW generators on a pallet that we do the mission,” said Lt. Col. Scott Zarbo, aged by the 821st CRG through Army currently can only fit two on. This has the See GENERATORS Page 19 The Tailwind is published by the Daily Republic, Fair- tus, physical handicap, political affiliation or any other Table of contents field, California, a private firm in no way connected with nonmerit factor of the purchaser, user or patron. Tailwind the U.S. Air Force. 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