The C-5 Galaxy’s Vast Cargo Hold. The C-5 has high-set wings and a high T-shaped vertical stabilizer. For propulsion the C-5 ...

The plane’s “cargo box” is 13.5 feet high, 19 feet wide, and 143.75 feet long. This adds up to 34,734 cubic feet of cargo space, or what C-5 maintainers call a “warehouse with wings ...

The C-5 Galaxy, designed in the 1960s to replace the C-133 Cargomaster and complement the smaller C-141 Starlifter, had a difficult design period. Wing fractures prevented the aircraft from being ...

Production of new C-5As was halted that year, and the first contract to re-wing the C-5s was signed in 1975. US airmen work on an engine on a C-5M Super Galaxy at Travis Air Force Base in ...

C-5M Galaxy airplanes are constantly overhead, as the 433rd Airlift Wing operates out of Joint Base San Antonio – Lackland. This amazing machine is the biggest thing the U.S. Air Force flies.

Per Lockheed, the C-5 Galaxy can carry twice as much cargo as any other airlifter in existence, and with the jet's boasting a reported maximum takeoff weight of 840,000 pounds, we're inclined to ...

The C-5 aircraft have had some reliability issues over the years; at one point in the 1970s and 1980s, the Air Force realized that the plane’s wing structure would only be functional for up to ...

This C-5 Galaxy was photographed mid-air from above as it was performing a refueling mission ... The Galaxy was flying to a date with a KC-135 Stratotanker with the 121st Air Refueling Wing, ...

This Massive C-5 Galaxy Almost Crashed. ... Jay Lacklen is a former C-5 pilot with 12,500 flying hours and the author of two books, ... The wing decided to put him up for a Flying Evaluation ...

Taken on Jun. 11, this image shows a C-5B Galaxy from Travis Air Force Base as seen from the boom operator station on a U.S. Air Force KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft assigned to the 191st Air ...

The C-5 Galaxy’s Vast Cargo Hold. The C-5 has high-set wings and a high T-shaped vertical stabilizer. For propulsion the C-5 relies upon four turbofan engines. The four engines guzzle fuel from ...