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Show It. tt'-- t r v t .4 J , V v V - - - - Lakeside Review, Wednesday, April 6, 1988 5A 'Bright ideas' save money, win awards Five Hill workHILL AFB procedure called staking. The ers saved the Air Force more procedure tightens bearings that than $2 million and earned themhave become loose and The throttle boxes were selves nearly $19,000 for sharing their bright ideas with Uncle Sam needed to meet a negotiated through the Air Force Suggestion workload schedule and procurement actions were repeatedly deProgram. metKenneth Hebdon, a sheet layed for replacements. al mechanic in the Directorate of James B. Ogan, an equipment' Maintenance received $7,850 for specialist in the Directorate of his suggestion that saved the Air Materiel Management, received Force $1,188,885. $7,247 for his idea of using airHe suggested that bearings in craft wedge light assemblies to rethrottle boxes for 4 Phantom place cockpit indicators in aircraft be restored for use by a Starlifters trainers. When he found that cockpit indicators were being condemned for failure of the wedge light assemblies, he proposed that all aircraft wedge light assemblies be used as replacements because they were interchangeable, already stocklisted and already in the inventory. The action saved the Air Force $809,301. out-ofroun- d. Burke Larsen on the outboard beam of the 6 Fighting Falcon aircraft which was cracking from flight and a loose tail. Don W. Law, an aircraft sheet metal mechanic in the aircraft division of the Directorate of Maintenance, earned more than $3,000 for his suggestion. would have to use a it tool, which cost as much as $30,000. Law suggested that tools already in stock be modified to handle the job at a cost of $1,500. His idea was to modify some tooling used for locating cracks A savings of $84,000 resulted and seven aircraft benefited from the modified Hill tool. F-1- F-- Geraldine A. Corona and William J. Stark, sheet metal inspectors in the Directorate of Maintenance, shared $7,379 for C-1- 41 F-- suggesting a way to repair cracks in outer wingfolds of 4 aircraft. The two recommended that material be ground away to eliminate the cracks. As a result, the Air Force saved $835,793. Since the job couldnt be done visually, maintenance crews six-dig- Hill worker ends career of 26 years HILL AFB After 26 years of service to Hill AFB, L. Burke Larsen, of Layton, has retired from civilian service. Larsen finished his career as deputy chief of the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile System Program Management Division in the Directorate of Materiel Man- PICK A PILLOW! agement. He 'entered civil service in 1963 as a personnel investigator in Washington D.C., but changed career fields the following year, working for seven years as a buyer and contracting officer at the Ogden Air Logistics Center. 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