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 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.

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.

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.

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 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-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 C-5 is capable of carrying two 78-ton M1A1 main battle tanks or helicopters and other large equipment intercontinental distances. Fully loaded, a C-5 has a gross weight of more than 800,000 ...

Last week, Lockheed Martin was awarded a similar award in support of the C-5 Galaxy worth $6.6 million under a indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract that taps Lockheed Martin to ...

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 ...

My InsiderAt 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 ...