“...and we have the brakes here...” lol
The shape is more reminiscent to me of antanov than lockheed. I would love to hear one taking off
One figure that always impressed me is that the cargo bay of the C5 is 143’, or 23’ longer than the Wright brothers’ first powered flight.
It's pretty awesome watching these big girls take off and land. It's like seeing a flying warehouse-size building.
Yes, that is a beautiful, most impressive airplane of the United States Air Force. We have 52 of them.
Suckers used to fly right over my house going in to Join Forces Training Base Los Alamitos, CA . First time was a real experience, they come in really low😱 and neither the seller or their realtor disclosed that the house was in a military flight path.
That tiny thing?
AVIATION PING!.................
Worked them for a couple years back in 73-75.
Pumped a lot of fuel - they held 318,000 pounds.
Worked most of the on-board systems.
Lots of room....
Air Force trainees at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas regularly saw these overhead since their depot was next door at Kelly Air Force Base (Kelly AFB / Kelly Field at Lackland AFB / Joint Base San Antonio / Tranny Pride Plaza) or whatever they’re calling it nowadays.
For comparison a Starship carries less than about 1/3rd payload of the C-5 into orbit
First time I ever saw one taking off at Travis AFB I thought I was watching a slow motion crash. It was so slow and lumbering. Having always lived around Navy bases I was used to planes taking off fast and furious.
As it turned out, our next door neighbor was a C5 pilot. He was also (un)lucky enough to pick up Jim Jones’ dead and fly them back to the US. He said they turned the AC down as low as it would go and nobody went to the head during the entire flight.
Can it stop a drone attack?
I got to jump out of one while in the 82d Abn Div in the seventies. Also, flew from Japan to Korea with a historic payload, landing before daylight. Two C130s landed carrying 9 Blackhawks, and they were pulled into the hanger and readied for immediate take off. That morning under the cover of darkness they flew up to the DMZ and made the maiden flight of Blackhawks for USFK flying along the DMZ. This was to show off the helo’s. That morning history was made twice; it was the first time more than Blackhawks had been configured for transport in a single plane as well.
I flew once to the PI on them, and initially the plane was configured for 18 passenger seats, but another 18 passenger seats were configured so a few more of us could get there as passengers.
They are big, they are loud and impressive. They are the daddy of the C141s.
Rode one from Ft Lewis to Ft Bliss, Border Star 85. My favorite of all time is the C141, never felt safer anywhere in the air. Slow, noisy, and cold I’ll take it with jump seats and a poncho liner over any first class commercial flight.
After going to the Sinai on the ill fated Arrow Air DC8 Stretch that crashed in Gander the C141 home was a Godsend.
I live just a couple miles from an air force base. They fly the C-17 Globemasters around here a lot along with many other planes. They’re really cool to see close to the ground taking off and landing. C-17s are really not that loud for what they are.
CAN CARRY LOTS OF DEPORTEES!!!
I grew up in Vallejo, CA about 20 miles from Travis AFB.
C-5’s and C-141’s flew over our house every day. Went to many air shows at Travis AFB.
I remember walking inside one at Berry Field in Nashville. I couldn’t believe that thing. The mothership.
My gawd, those aircraft were almost endless. There was no way one or two could inspect every crevice on that aircraft in the time given before takeoff. The Customs units decided to just concentrate on known places for illegal items.
Still, it was good duty rather than wrestling and busting heads when the clubs closed with our PR-24 batons. Yes, we were allowed and had continuous training. Still have mine. It is a baton with a perpendicular handle on it. That handle gave other ways to maintain control other than clubbing our Sailors/Marines upside the head and body. You've probably seen them in movies. Sorry, got off track.
I grew up in Marietta Ga barely a few miles from the Lockheed Ga plant. I was 6 when I watched, with my parents, the first Galaxy flight from just off the end of the runway.
I got to ride one from Travis to Hawaii and back in the early 90’s. Rode up in the crew compartment, but got to climb down into the cargo bay while in flight. I’d walked through many before at airshows, but never in flight. It was like an open warehouse in flight. Amazing things we were able to build over 50 years ago.