Speak Up: Dover AFB goes big, opens new hangar built for mammoth cargo planes

The 436th Airlift Wing at Dover Air Force Base is home to the C-5M Super Galaxy, the largest aircraft in the Air Force inventory. So, it is only fitting that the base is now the site of an equally impressive 84,176-square-foot hangar to maintain the base’s fleet of C-5s and C-17 Globemaster III cargo planes.

• Nice! — Glenda Ruggiero
• Awesome! — Esther Noll
• Thanks for what you do! — Mary Lou Via Riley
• Spend more time and money raising competent service members. The discipline of our airmen has declined dramatically in the last decade. — Steven LeMarble
• Thanks to the Democrats for weakening the people. — John Archut Sr.
• I spent 26 years in the Air Force and had a group of people working with me that I wouldn’t think of trading. — Bill Godshall
• I spent almost seven, sir. And I’ll be the first to admit that I was too young, stubborn and prideful to be in when I was an awkward and dumb 19-year-old. But the men and women I worked with when I was in the 2As were some of the most intelligent and capable aircraft mechanics I’ve ever had the honor of working with. — Steven LeMarble
• All that money, and the doors are janky at best. — Nicole Michele
• That’s awesome. But you know there’s a crusty old mechanic reading this right now and saying, “Ha! Back in my day, we fixed our planes while walking in 4 feet of snow, uphill, both ways!” — Tony Nichols