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The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy is a large military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed, and now maintained and upgraded by its successor, Lockheed Martin.It provides the United States Air Force (USAF) with a heavy intercontinental-range strategic airlift capability, one that can carry outsized and oversized loads, including all air-certifiable cargo.
The Spartan C5 was a passenger and utility aircraft produced in small numbers in the United States in the early 1930s. [1] [2] [3] It was a further, ultimately unsuccessful, attempt to market the Spartan C4, from which it was developed. [2] Like its predecessor, the C5 was a high-wing, strut-braced monoplane with a fully enclosed cabin. [1]
The aircraft also served with airlift and air mobility wings of the Air Force Reserve (AFRES), later renamed Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC), the Air National Guard (ANG) and, later, one air mobility wing of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC) dedicated to C-141, C-5, C-17 and KC-135 training.
The C-5's engines were built by Hispano-Suiza, and its control car was built by Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company.In early May 1919, the C-5 made a pioneering flight from its home base at Cape May, New Jersey to Montauk, New York and St. John's, Newfoundland, becoming the first airship to reach that city and in the process sending the first radio voice transmission from Newfoundland.
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Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, a military transport aircraft; C-5 North Star, a 1940s Canadian military aircraft; HMS C5, a 1906 Royal Navy C-class submarine; USS C-5 (SS-16), a 1908 United States Navy C-class submarine; USS San Francisco (C-5), an 1889 United States Navy protected cruiser; Albatros C.V, a World War I German military reconnaissance aircraft
On April 4, 1975, 250 orphans and 78 crew members were picked up by a C-5 cargo plane from Tan Son Nhut Airport at 4pm. 12 minutes into the flight, an explosion occurred on the lower rear fuselage ...
The T-33 Shooting Star was used to train US Air Force pilots on jet aircraft until the early 1960s. The flight was an unforgettable glimpse into aviation history as modern fighters rule the skies.