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 ...

The C-5 can carry twice the cargo of other strategic airlift systems. With more than 70 percent of its structural service life remaining, the C-5M Super Galaxy will be a force multiplier through 2040.

Significance of LMT’s C-5M Galaxy Jets LMT’s C-5M Super Galaxy, the modernized variant of C-5 Galaxy jets, is the U.S. Air Force’s largest and only strategic airlifter.

According to Rod Hafemeister of Naval Air Station-Corpus Christi, the plane people are seeing Tuesday is a Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, the largest military transport aircraft used by the U.S. Department ...

The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy is the largest western military aircraft ever built, and fully loaded it can weigh nearly a million pounds. One of the most amazing, and troublesome, of its components are ...

It’s a big deal for a big plane. Lockheed Martin in Marietta will be celebrating 50 years of the massive C-5 Galaxy being used by the U.S. Air Force on Tuesday. Gov. Nathan Deal is set to attend.

Lockheed has a $1 billion contract from the air force for the RERP SDD, which includes modifying and testing three aircraft - two B models and one A model. Ship 99, the first RERP C-5, first flew ...

The C-5 Galaxy is an intercontinental-range, heavy-lift military cargo/personnel-transport aircraft. The aircraft made its first flight in June 1968; 81 of the C-5A model were produced through ...

At 222 feet across, almost 300 feet long, and 65 feet tall at its tail, Lockheed Martin's C-5 Galaxy is the largest transport aircraft in the US Air Force. With a cargo hull 121 feet long and 19 ...

The C-5M Galaxy is a large military transport aircraft manufactured by Lockheed Martin. Work on the contract will occur in Marietta, Ga., and is expected to be complete in May 2024.

The CF6-80C2 engine powers the Lockheed Martin C-5M, Boeing 747, 767 and MD-11 aircraft as well as the Airbus A300 and A310 aircraft.