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.
Does anybody know the C5A was nothing but an expensive boondoggle? I read a book on it in the mid-70’s. A whistleblower named Fitzgerald was transferred to run bowling alleys in Thailand. Converted 747’s would have been a lot cheaper. I’m talking DOGE stuff. The one military application was the front end opened up making it load up faster from both ends. It may have come in handy during the ‘73 Yom Kipper war. Anyone who served can remember being on a higher alert. A big waste of taxpayer money.