The LockheedC-5 Galaxy, one of the largest military transport aircraft ever built, is known not only for its sheer size and incredible cargo capacity, but also for a sound that is instantly ...

The LockheedC-5M Super Galaxy is the largest military transport aircraft in the United States Air Force, although not the largest in the world. That title goes to the Antonov An-124 Ruslan, afterthe ...

Photo: USAF/Samuel King Jr. It doesn’t take long to be impressed with the C-5 Galaxy airplane. The Lockheed machine is described as the only (and by extension the largest) strategic air lifter in the ...

The C-5, the largest transport aircraft in the US Air Force fleet, is showing signs of its age—yet its replacement, the Next Generation Airlift, is still roughly a decade away. The Air Force has ...

The U.S. Air Force is taking a hard look at using the C-5M Super Galaxy airlifter in the aeromedical evacuation role. The C-5M’s cavernous cargo area, plus newly added electrical capacity, would be ...

A Galaxy uses every inch of runway 33 at Ilopango airport, El Salvador. The following footage shows a U.S. Air Force C-5 Galaxy taking off from Ilopango airport, located on the eastern part of the ...

Generally speaking, photos of aircraft in action show these machines from underneath. The simple explanation for this is that most of the time the one taking the photo is on the ground, while the ...

Lockheed Martin said earlier this month that the last of 52 upgraded C-5M Super Galaxy cargo planes had been delivered to the Air Force, finishing the nearly two-decade-long modernization of the ...

Aircraft are tailored to their intended purpose during the design and construction process. This purpose can and often does differ from the initial concept as time passes (perhaps development is ...

Taken on Jun. 11, this image shows a C-5B Galaxy from Travis Air Force Base as seen from the boom operator station on a U.S. Air Force KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft assigned to the 191st Air Refueling ...