[JRios1968]

Just a few pics

http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/060620-F-9988K-001.JPG

http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/060620-F-9988L-003.JPG

http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/060620-F-9988N-002.JPG

And a story:

C-5 still going strong after 38 years

[lentulusgracchus]

I saw one of the first prototypes of the C-5 in the air when I was at the naval base in Charleston, SC, in 1970 for a week for Registered Publications System school. I'd just finished a course at the Fleet Sonar School in Key West in July and was on my way (eventually) to Patrick AFB and a ride to my first permanent duty station, a downrange facility. I looked up and saw this great big airplane just hanging in the air -- it had to be 10-15 miles away -- and moving impossibly slowly, or so it seemed, with all its landing gear down. I recognized it at once from photos.

When eventually I actually heard one, I was impressed by that deep-pitched siren sound the engines made -- back then, I'd never heard anything like it.