It can also carry 75 more passengers in airline-style seating separate from the cargo area. A Humongous History. ... C-5 Galaxy at McMurdo Station, 1989. The first C-5 Galaxy flew on June 30, 1968 ...

A fully loaded C-5 with cargo, fuel, passengers and crew weighs about 840,000 pounds. It can fly 2,150 nautical miles, offload, the fly another 500 to a second base without refueling.

Welcome back to the Fluctus channel, where we explore the unmatched capabilities of the C-5 Galaxy, the U.S. Air Force’s largest strategic airlifter. From innovative cargo systems and massive ...

The Super Galaxy can fly over 5,500 miles with 120,000 pounds of cargo or nearly 8,100 miles with no cargo. Thanks to the constant cycle of upgrades , the Air Force plans to keep its fleet of 52 C ...

All the oldest C-5A cargo jets in the Air Force are being retired and the newer C5-B Galaxy jets are being upgraded into C-5M Super Galaxy jets.

The C-5 has a cargo capacity of 142 tons, the equivalent of carrying two M1A1 Abrams tanks, six greyhound buses, or 25,844,746 ping-pong balls. Below, see just how awesome the C-5's carrying ...

The C-5M’s cavernous cargo area, plus newly added electrical capacity, would be useful ferrying wounded troops, ... The C-5 Galaxy is the largest plane in the U.S. military’s arsenal.

Per Lockheed, the C-5 Galaxy can carry twice as much cargo as any other airlifter in existence, and with the jet's boasting a reported maximum takeoff weight of 840,000 pounds, we're inclined to ...

Two CH-47H Chinook helicopters were loaded onto a C-5 Galaxy cargo plane and flown nearly 10,000 miles to Australia, the U.S. Air Force said on Monday.

A Galaxy C-5 aircraft from Travis Air Force Base in Northern California landed and took off from the Long Beach Airport on Friday. The plane is the Air Force’s largest strategic airlifter and ...

The 59th Medical Wing’s medical gear gets loaded onto a C-5 Galaxy at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas on Wednesday. More than 70 airmen from the wing arrived in the Houston area to ...