Did You Know... The C-5 has the ability to transport 270 passengers...six transcontinental buses...two M1-A1 Abrams main battle tanks...seven UH-1 Huey helicopters or one U.S. Army 74-ton mobile scissors bridge. The landing gear has a total of 28 wheels The interior and exterior paint on the C-5 weighs 2,600 pounds More than 100 miles of wiring are required to functionally operate all C-5 aircraft systems The cargo compartment of the C-5 is large enough to hold an eight-lane bowling alley The C-5 can carry 25,844,746 ping pong balls Each C-5 engine nacelle is 1 ½ time the length of a Cadillac, large enough to garage a Ford Mustang The C-5 contains over five miles of control cables Each C-5 engine gulps approximately 42 tons of air per minute
Maybe an Avro Vulcan under some conditions. They both have that high pitch whining which sounds awesome. Newer engines are so boring in terms of noise.
+xmac Yes, speed. It takes a certain velocity of air to make a sufficient differential reaction to induce flight. Ask any bird. Hummingbirds still laugh at us.
It's really not as heavy as it looks, though. If you could scale it down to the size of a car, it would be extremely light. If you scaled a car up to the size of a C5 Galaxy, it would be exceptionally heavy.
As a kid, I grew up with these monsters flying overhead. Hearing the unmistakable steady roar of the TF39s would always put a smile on my face and send me running outside to watch good ol' FRED go by. There was something almost soothing about it.
*Yeah... They could have kept a couple of birds operational with TF-39s... Would have been plenty of spare parts for it, but F-ing bureaucrats and bean counters have no sense of nostalgia. The new engines are boring... Sounds like any big civilian airliner now... Smh*
@@expfighter5112 Sad is you trying to be an English teacher to someone who speaks 5 languages and I wont change it to make you happy as it makes me happy the way I posted it!
@@johnholmes7622 i was NOT Grammering you on anything, hilarious! i was saying that the C5's HAD great engines and sound before they took out the tf39 engines and replaced them with boring ass everyday airline engines! has nothing to do with grammar! what's sad is that you say you speak 5 languages but don't know what you're talking about.
When they takeoff at certain angles it looks like they rotate at 2mph and makes no sense how its lifting off the ground, planes so huge it fools your eyes.
If i were a megalomaniac who had billions of dollars at my my disposal, i'd buy a C-5 and turn it into a private jet. 2-4 car garage at the front, a place to carry a helicopter in the rear and i'd fill the middle with luxury accommodations. A bar, a small movie-theater and everything else you can fit in there in addition to large bedrooms, bathrooms and living room. Maybe make it a two-story apartment, if the height allows it. People with their Gulfstreams would seem like nothing after that..
Dont know if you could get that off the ground......all the plumbing and water weighs alot.....plus, even a billionair would be hardpressed to pay for the fuel.
Thoelle Weight wouldn't be an issue as you can design your plans around those limits, but your comment about paying for the fuel? I have to make some things clear to you. A C-5 costs around 168 million dollars and let's say customising it raises the cost to 220 million, meaning over 50million dollars put into the interior of an airplane. It costs 78,817 dollars to fly the C-5 for an hour, counting for the fuel, maintenance and other expenditures. If some billionaire would be willing to spend 1 billion dollars every year for transportation instead of buying politicians or other shiny things, let's see what they could pay for, shall we? After paying 220million for the plane it leaves 780million divided by 78,817 for 9896 hours of operation. That is 412 days worth of operating hours. That means that they could buy a NEW luxury C-5 EVERY YEAR, keep it airborne around the clock and still have 88million left over. Now let's say that they would buy the plane and fly it for about 10 hours a week for 4 years, which is still a lot more traveling than any person would be willing to endure. That would cost 163939360 dollars over those 4 years and with the plane it would be an investment of 363939360 dollars. Let's 365million to round things up. Warren Buffet earns enough money to pay for that in 10 DAYS!!! The Koch brothers spent 100million dollars in just the United States mid-term elections. So for the big megalomaniacal billionaires in the world who have billions of dollars of money at their disposal, paying for fuel is no problem...
markotark You also have to register the damn thing which would be interesting to say the least for a, normally, military aircraft. Also, when i said billionare, i was thinking a man who has a billion dollars in the bank and is making maybe a few hundred million a year. Not a multibillionaire. A multibillionaire can pretty much pay for whatever he wants, personal supercomputer, yup, private island, yup, private country, probably, private military, probably, house the size of a disneyland theme park, yup
Thoelle I think i said that: "If i were a megalomaniac who had BILLIONS of dollars at my my DISPOSAL...", so yeah, i was thinking of those multibillionaire's of the world. But doing those calculations just reminded me of how some people have too much money... What i mean by that is that i live on a small Island between Sweden and Finland with a population of 28.000 people. Warren Buffet could give every single person on this island 2,7million dollars and still have enough money left over to give the 507 million people of the European Union almost 5 dollars... If that's not excessive, i don't know what is.
***** The Antonov would require extremely large airports, limiting you movements to within the range of an extremely large airport. Also because the noise produced would be certainly annoying, seeing as how sound proofing would likely tip it over its weight limit.
According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a C-5 Galaxy should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat body off the ground. The C-5, of course, flies anyway.
was working on the altus military airlift command at altus Oklahoma and talk about a beast of an aircraft it was and still love those tf-39 turbo fans engines that's the sound of freedom literally.
There's only 2 C-5C models. One is 8216. I used to fly it as an instructor flight engineer and I was the regular crew chief when it first got modded from being just an A model.
I still can’t get over the size of the C-5 Galaxy and how it actually takes off and flies. I actually hitched a ride on the C-5 from Ramstein Air Base in West Germany, December 1981. Landed at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware. Made my way to San Luis Obispo, California. After spending some time in the States, returned to Germany on a different flight and airline (not a C-5). But hitching a ride on a Galaxy is an experience.
My Dad worked at Lockheed designing the C5-A. I have a scar on my chin where my brother knocked me down as we were running outside to see the plane Daddy had helped build as it passed over our house on its maiden flight.
Worked at a FD that had a station directly across the road from the Camp Grayling airstrip. When these would take off, they'd need every inch of runway, so they'd be maybe 100 yds from the bay doors. Everything in the station would shake. If they were coming in above us to land, they may have cleared the station by 50'. Deafening ( but absolutely cool) coming or going.
My first thought was, oh my God they got two of them ready to go at the same time!? With as much maintenance as those need that was a surprise. Then I realized the one in front was a C-17 not a C-5A.
Awesome aircraft. You can't really appreciate it until you stand inside the cargo hold- my daughter described it as "a church with wings" and that's pretty accurate. But if you can physically fit the cargo inside a C-17, the '17 will carry it cheaper per pound.
Amazing. My late husband used to be in the US Air Force. He would load and download these aircrafts. He told me that it was huge on the inside. You won't believe what we can load in their.
I got to see the inside of one at an air show. It was indeed HUGE. We got to watch take off, and though I know it had to be going at least 150mph, it was so huge it looked like it was doing about 30.
Music today is crap. No real bands on the horizon. But this band called the C5s is one helluva heavy metal band. That chorus at 1:27 will make AC/DC look a bit average.
Most interesting plane ride of my life was in one of these. Took it from Hawaii to Guam via military hops. Not only is it insanely loud (we wore ear plugs the entire time and it still sounded like a air conditioner was next to my ear), but the few passenger seats it has are facing the back of the plane, so take off was interesting. I really needed that seat belt.
We went from RAF Mildenhall uk to Dover in 1988. It was so weird taking off because you couldnt feel the wheels leave the ground. We were in the air and still thought we hadnt lifted off. We got invited into the cockpit. Something my kids will never forget. F
I used to watch these take off from JB MDL when I was doing TDY at Fort Dix. It just amazed me that they could even fly. This one was obviously empty as the ones at McGuire would just kind of lumber into the sky.
I remember when we were stationed at Ford Ord and a C-5 made a landing at Monterey Regional. Suffice to say that little airport was not made to handle something that huge. The landing gears squashed the runway lights and the wings knocked over some markers. Trust me; the government paid out a pretty penny over that one.
I’m doing almost 200 full pull on yoke to immediate 15 degree right bank and permission for throttle up at 10,000 ft. Needed 8 800 ft. Fully loaded with two tanks and 15 hum vee. Thanks for watching captain and shift commander LABonte air mobility command patriot wing commander usaforce MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU U. S. AIR FORCE 33 years of service.
@@JMAC-rs6ey it seems like wheels don't come up as soon as other jets? Why do the wings tilt down instead of a little dihedral like many planes? What is the stall speed?
Did you ever actually fly as a crewmember? (Usually it's the armchair expert maligning the C-5 never having even been inside the thing). Here's a historical nugget: circa 2003, we flew enough hours that I we prayed to break and rarely did. (I was gone 342 days that year and got probably 1200 hours in 12 months.)
Omigosh!!! Those little 'ants' running out in front of that plane really give it some perspective!!! That plane is MASSIVE!!! And it only took about 25 seconds to rotate??? That seems so incredible to me. Great shot!!! Thanx~
25 seconds to rotate because it´s empty but of course it´s a massive plane. "Lived" with them at Azores AFB every day. Missing that beautifull fan noise
Pedro Santos Oh my gosh...my Aunt used to live in the Azores in the 70's. . It looked like such a beautiful place! Even tho that plane was empty, it STILL took off fast. But what do I know??? lol
We would stage behind each engine for a fire training scenario and I remember the wind from the engines at idle speed just swaying us back and fourth in our P-19 crash truck. Massive aircraft.
HONDASBEST How can you not see a spectre a hundred miles away? It is a literal club ment to wipe out ak47 weilding assholes. Now a B1 full of long range AA missiles working with awacs, that would be a combo that would be worth something. Imagine approching THAT airspace.
I was very fortunate to ride this huuuuuge plane from Charleston Air Force Base going to Dover Air Force Base With my Family. We set on the second floor hahahaha...From Dover We went to fly C-17 going to Ramstein Air Force Base, it was the most memorable vacation we had in Europe (2005) . C-5 Galaxy is such a badass plane in my opinion. God Bless Our U.S Military All over the world.
Big plane: "Watch out kids, I'm about to take off, u better get out the way before I run you over Little plane : "Yes sir! Come on pinky, this guy is huge"
