I love the low groan of large engines on cargo aircraft, especially the C-5. When I was in basic training, C-5’s were stationed at Kelly, next door. They used to fly over the drill pad blotting out the sky. This massive chunk of steel seemingly hanging in the air.
I am reading the comments in the ADN website, eyewitnesses say that the plane was making a high bank low altitude turn possibly a maneuver for this weekends air show, unconfirmed that an access hatch was visibly open, may or may not have been for landing gear, developing...
“C-5’s were stationed at Kelly, next door. They used to fly over the drill pad blotting out the sky. This massive chunk of steel seemingly hanging in the air.”
I landed at Brown, San Diego, years ago to clear cusroms and taxied under the wing of a C-5 that was there for an air show.
They are one massive bird!
There was the Russian counterpart next to it and it was even larger!
Did the early versions of the C-5 carry the PW=JT9’s or the GE CF-6?
I missed getting a ride on a C-5 by thaaaaat much..
That’s why they used to be called the aluminum cloud.