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FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. John Gonge addresses a small group at a naming ceremony at Travis Air Force Base, Friday, April 9, 2021. The base’s 60th Air Mobility Wing Phoenix Spark team named its new lab in honor of Gonge, who served as 22nd Air Force commander at Travis in the 1970s. (Nicholas Pilch/U.S. Air Force file photo)
New innovation facility honors retiree from Travis
By Nicholas Pilch, 60th Air Mobility Wing Public Affairs
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE The Travis Air Force Base Phoenix Spark innovation cell revealed the name for its new location April 9.
Travis lab repairs firetruck gear for 5 cents
Staff Sgt. Max Estrada, 60th Air Mobility Wing noncommissioned officer in charge of agile manufacturing, shows off a replacement gear for a base firetruck crafted using 3D printing at Travis Air Force Base, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. (Courtesy photo)
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE Travis Air Force Base’s Phoenix Spark Lab used its 3-D printers March 2 to replace a damaged part for a base firetruck and return it to the inventory in one day – and it did so for only 5 cents.
By 3-D printing the part, rather than ordering a replacement, the base saved upward of $2,700, according to Senior Master Sgt. Phil Edwards, Phoenix Spark Lab superintendent. He said the members of the lab used only 5 cents worth of plastic.