Crank up your speakers as the largest aircraft in the United States Air Force fleet, a Lockheed C-5 A Galaxy ( 69-0012 ) screams down the wet, 10,500 foot runway at Gander International Airport ( CYQX ).
I'm a pilot. I work in the aviation industry. I understand aerodynamics extremely well. Despite all that, every time I see a Galaxy take off, I still can't believe my eyes. That's no moon, it's a space station!
*C-5 Galaxy:* ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_QJjkwdHZ8s.html (Full throttle) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FjtSEyo7C-Y.html (Idle) *B707:* ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dbnaqRPU2nI.html (JT3D -> Full throttle) *Note: Those 'music' are looped, not easy to do that!*
This is the best C5 video by far. Those mean sounding TF39s and the wing vortices in the humid air are awesome. RIP C5A, best sounding plane in the sky.
Yeah I'm really upset you know I live here in Santa Rosa California and Travis is about 50 mi from me I never went up there and listened the old tf39 live although in 1991 I was driving down 12 once to Stockton and I had a brand new car and I thought the wheel was coming off or something and this car was kind of shaking and I was like what the hell's going on all the sudden I looked up out the top of by the mirror on windshield and there was the big girl all four TF'S slightly blowing dark smoke and the rumble inside the car doing 60 I I couldn't believe it so I do have a tf39 experience. I'm a sad now that I think back I'm going to use a word I haven't used it was"Bitchen"
TF-39s aren't used anymore? I was in the Navy and was stationed on Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, TX for a school. And C5s were doing pattern flying from late in the afternoon until deep into the night...I guess the pilots were getting re-qualified. But anytime they landed I listened for the TF39s to spool up again. Very distinct sound.
I was stationed at Dover AFB, Delaware from 1982-1983 and the sound of the C5 could be heard at all hours of the day and night. It's a sound I will always love and never forget. Thanks for this video.
My dad was a transient aircraft tech on C5s at dover around that time! Maybe yall knew each other! I was born in the Philippines after he and my mother PCSed from there.
I live in Martinsburg WV. The Eastern Panhandle Regional Airport has 4 C5's there year round for the West Virginia Air Guard. They fly every Wednesday doing practice flights and touch and go's
Les Brown Yeah I was a crew chief on the C5 at Westover. Good old plane as long as it was flying but man when he hit the ground it could be heavy maintenance
I've flown on the C5-A. Incredible experience! Aside from the seats facing backwards and the incredibly long take-off roll, the lower deck was cavernous, loud, and cold. The pilots let me watch the sunrise from the cockpit travelling from Anchorage to Tokyo. Such great memories...
@GRRAPTOR, I flew on an A model from Yokota Japan to Charleston SC when I rotated Stateside from Ubon Thailand in 1971. You brought back a lot of memories.
GRRAPTOR - I flew on one from Travis to Tokyo. They’d originally planned to land in Anchorage but instead refueled in midair (that was a trip) and we flew on to Japan. Loved the oversized seats. It also was great to walk through the empty plane and up to the cockpit. Best ride of my life.
Excellent! During my enlistment in the Army my unit flew in one from Honolulu to Arizona and back again. Definitely one of the highlights of my time as a soldier.
What makes the sound so awesome is the change in pitch as it passes by. You hear the high pitch as it approaches, and after it passes, it's more like a roar. I still get goosebumps. The sounds of the initial thrust of the engines (not heard in this video) is equally awesome. However - performance-wise... no contest that the new engines are noticeably better. It is what it is.
I spent 10 years of my first 21 living at air bases in West Germany that had C-5's coming and going at bare minimum once a day. Rhein Main AB would often get 3 or 4 a day. Living in West Germany before the advent of cable TV/computers/even the internet I became a HUGE aviation geek. I started referring to the TF-39 engines as "The Banshee Engine". Such a beautiful noise...
While on vacation in another state we happened to be driving past an Air Force base and I pulled over in a grassy area near the departure end of the runway to see if any planes were about to take off. I'm ex-USAF and never miss a chance to do some plane spotting, but my two plane-jaded sons sons who were about 13 and 10 at the time got out the football and started throwing it back and forth, not paying much attention when I told them a C-5 was on the far end of the runway about to take off. They continued throwing the ball and goofing around, not paying much attention until the C-5 broke ground and rose into the air right over our heads, TF39 engines screaming just as in this video. The football dropped to the ground and their mouths hung open as they stood and watched it claw its way skyward, and one of them in an awestruck voice exclaimed, "Good lord!". That pretty much sums up the experience of seeing a C-5 take off, especially one with TF39s.
I remember watching this plane land on RWY 21 in Roswell NM, standing on the roof of my mom's mini van... it looked like it was going to crash into us! One of the most memorable airplanes I've ever witnessed. The sound, and the sheer size of this beast will leave an impression on anyone who gets to see it up close.
Something so magical about watching a C-5 takeoff or land on a cold, cloudy, rainy day. The scream of those engines brings back so many great childhood memories! Thanks for sharing this!
When my late father was in the Air Force back in the 1970s, and I was a toddler, he was stationed for a couple years in Mildenhall England, and the base housing complex we were living at was right near the main takeoff runway. Though I was young, I can still remember a little bit how much our house unit shook, and that long loud scream from those four massive jet engines when a C-5 took off.
Excellent footage. Awesome showcasing of this majestic plane that supported our men and women in the armed forces. This footage even captures the unique and sweet whine of those Galaxy engines that say, "help is on the way". Thank you to all who have, who are and who will serve our country! You are the best.🇺🇲
That's impressive, great catch! Would you be okay with me featuring this in my series Weekly Dose of Aviation? Of course you will be credited both in the video and in the description.
I was stationed at Kelly Air Force base for 2 years. I watched C5s take off many times and each time I held my breath thinking that it’s too big to get airborne. An amazing machine.
Only saw a C5-A/B in the air once, after departing Patrick AFB. Flew right over my house at about 1500 ft and for what ever reason the pilot was working the throttles up and down. What a sound! I’ll never forget it. Heard it coming having no idea what it was. I ran out and looked up to see this giant C5 going right overhead in a fairly steep turn screeching all the way.
I used to work at an Air Force base and every time I’d hear this massive air behemoth, I’d look to the sky and marvel at this massive flying machine. The sound is unforgettable. It NEVER got old.
My dad worked for the 433rd airlift wing out of Kelly AFB in San Antonio back in the 80-90’s. Every now and then he would have to do some work on a weekend and I would jump on the chance if he asked if I wanted to go. His building was no more than 25 yards away from a hanger that routinely had 4-6 C5’s parked outside in a row. If I was real lucky I would get to see them being loaded. Getting to see them up close like that is one of my best childhood memories. That aircraft is special.
Years ago I was privileged to watch these take off and land at Altus AFB in Oklahoma. When they land, they just float gently down to the ground, such that one wonders how they stay up. Beautiful planes flown by very talented pilots!
Great video. In 1982, Was my first time seeing and hearing the C-5 during its takeoff run at Travis AFB. The four Pratts were screaming. I thought they would explode. Incredible piece of engineering.
Never seen it in person, as I love aircraft...but this thing amazes me every time I see it leave the ground, simply amazing!....and the sound, sheesh.........
I remember seeing one of these take off above us in Norfolk Va many years ago while playing golf and I swear it looked like it was going so slow that it could fall out of the sky at any moment. What a machine!!
We were stationed at that base when I was a kid. Goose Bay Sir Base back then (69-72). A wonderful adventure. All but gone now but it was amazing and cold. I spent 10 of my 22 USAF years at Travis AFB. Huge C-5 base back then.
I worked federal civil service C5 aircraft mechanic at Kelly’s AFB , TX. I worked in bldg. 375. I then transferred to the 433rd MAW at Kelly and became an ART C5 flight engineer. I flew it for 11 years (over 10,000 hrs)! Every time I hear one fly over, I still stop and look up to admire that beautiful airplane.
I attended a San Antonio Missions one time and a C5 and 4 F16s flew over on final. The ballgame stopped. No one called time out...everything just STOPPED!
The single most unmistakable engine sound in the world. I live in south Jersey and they fly up to the coast from Dover, you never even have to look up, you just know it's a C-5.
As a kid who grew up Air Force, I never tire of watching one these goliaths get airborne. Those turbofans are doing all talking-there's some serious thrust right there!
I was stationed at Kadena AFB in 1981 when this C5 full of Air to Air Aim-7F missiles in containers arrived. It was my job to help with the unloading, cross loading to trailers and transport all the missiles to the bomb dump storage area. We were all day and half the night trying to move that many missiles. 5 truck crews, a loading crew, and three storage crews. Not including the aircraft payload specialists and the K loader. So many damn missiles came out of that plane! Go 400th MMS!!! (Me and two other guys built the Freedom Train while there. If you were there you might know of it.)
Oh I miss that. Altus AFB OK, 1978-80 It's so big it looks like it is flying in slow motion. I had a wonderful opportunity to fly the simulator a couple of hours, all of it is incredible.
It's an amazing thing seeing them take off. If one has seen C5s up close and personal, those things are huge. By all rights they shouldn't be able to fly but yet they do, with ease. I saw them fly from Langley AFB, Andersen AFB, and Martinsburg Municipal Airport, one of many West Virginia Air National Guard bases.
I would watch with amazement every C5A takeoff at Wright-Patterson AFB. It seemed so unbelievably short and slow from brake release to wheels off the ground, and it seemed to claw its way aloft as the engines growled like hounds from Hell..I was in Det. 15, 15th Weather Squadron from 1976-77.
In the summer here in San Antonio, TX I can see them flying around from my backyard, flying low then bam here the engines rev highand see them climbing, the sound is amazing, Lackland AFB is a couple of miles down the highway from where I liv3
Driving west on I64, once in the late 1970's, a C5 was coming in for a landing at Norfolk NAS...the C5 emerged from the morning fog 500 feet or less in the air just as I was driving under the plane....it was an incredible thing to see. It shook my VW Beetle all to Hell. What a rush.
I grew up in Marietta, GA and these behemoths would fly right over our neighborhood. The whine and whistle of the engine brings back a lot of good childhood memories.
I lived next to an AF base when I was a kid that housed these giants. From my early childhood into my teens I heard these all the time. Such a comforting sound. Makes me miss my childhood.
Members of my C-130A squadron were invited by air crew members on layover so we took a tour. The dead space in the tail of this behemoth is equal to a C-130A's cargo compartment.
These are magnificent aircraft. They're a common sight wheeling through the skies of Western Massachusetts; they fly out of Westover Air Reserve Base. They never cease to amaze me.
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I spend quite a bit of time around the C-5 Galaxy during my 6 years as helicopter airframe mechanic in the Army. I will never forget the howling wail these aircraft make throttling up and during while taxiing. Then when takeoff power is applied a low growl sound is added. This aircraft never seems to reach takeoff speed for such a massive aircraft before it lifts off but it obviously does.
In 1971 I moved to Germany to live with my uncle work worked on C5's at Rhein Main AFB ! I went in one after school looking for my uncle and got arrested my MP's. I was so scare that I got my uncle in trouble but when he came to get me, he said I proved a point that he was trying to make for years about lack of security around those planes . I was 13 and became the kid who got arrested by the MP's!!! Man was that plane big !!! Loved that time with my uncle .
my DAD worked on the assembly line at Lockheed in Marietta Georgia on every one of these ever built. Ive been inside many of these when i was a kid maybe even that one they are awesome and the one of a kind sound
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for not talking, clapping or even taking pictures while this beauty was taking off. Hard to find good videos where people ain't saying something stupid like....I got that on video or something equally stupid.
In Okinawa 72 & 72 I watched these C5 and SR 71 on a daily basis. In North Dakota it was the B52 and the C141 and KC135. I still like to hear them. I lost a little if my hearing due to the high level of noise. God is good
@@psalmsoftheheartministries7103 I worked as a mechanic & test tech on military & commercial airline projects. Not by any plan, I just fell into good situations & met great people. God IS good!
Lived in San Bernardino CA in my youth and my dad was at Norton AFB. I will never forget the "whine" the C5A would make when taking off from hour house miles away. So distinctive we would run out into the street to see it rise up.
I've flown on several military aircraft. The C-5 seats about 50 passengers. 1 March 1995, I was the only passenger on a C5 flying from Dover to Charleston South Carolina, the flight crew let me roll up in the cockpit. That was an exciting and joyful day
I think what’s even more impressive is watching one land. The ground shakes like there’s an earthquake going on. I was stationed at a field hospital set up on a flight line on a Hungarian AFB at the beginning of the Balkans campaign. Every time one of these C5s would land (which was very frequent) our ORs; which were expandable shelters on jacks, would shake to the point that we’d have to stop doing surgery until it was over. Eventually we put radios in each of the ORs so the air traffic controllers could communicate with us that a C5 was about to land.
