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 ...

In 1974, the U.S. Air Force used the massive Lockheed C‑5 Galaxy to test whether an 86,000‑pound Minuteman ICBM could be ...

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 ...

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.

Lockheed Martin Corporation’s LMT business unit, Aeronautics, recently secured a $56 million contract to support the C-5M Super Galaxy fleet. Per the terms of the deal, Lockheed will provide ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 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.

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.