Could you image if you were part of the Engineering Team that create this Air Machine?
Could you image if you were part of the Engineering Team that create this Air Machine?
I hate C-5's. Noisy as he11 inside and you sit backwards up top in the back of the plane. And not to mention you never know where you'll end up cause they break alot. I would take a C-17 ALL DAY LONG.
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You would think they would need more runway but I guess that is what a lot of power and lift gets you.
4 C-5s sitting the ramp.... 3 of them are on jacks. What can you deduce from the situation?
Maintenance ran out of jacks
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Lol, I’m just the opposite. C-17 has cramped ass pallet seats and chances are you’re going somewhere bad (and no Flight Engineers), C-5s are nice and comfy, you absolutely WILL break but it’ll either be in Rota or hickam...never somewhere bad (and 2 flight engineers!)....now my first trip to Iraq was in the back of a 141!!Originally Posted by cwilt
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Cant mistake the sound. I always know when something major is beginning around the world when i start hearing C-5's flying in and out of the local air base at night.
Amazing how little room it needs to take off
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Still all in all its a beauty!
The C5’sI flew on took forever to get airborn because of the massive payload on them from Carrying our equipment. We would have a couple of 5 tons and humvees, trailers with generators and other assorted equipment.
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Always hated refueling them due to the bow wave... they would push us all over the sky and sometimes the receiver pilots would get a little close to make things really interesting!! Saw a many of them being station at Altus Ok for a few years.
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Before I retired from the Army I was in a joint assignment with an AirForce Colonel who was a C5 A pilot and he had wild stories about taking off a couple of times and the load master had miscalculated and over loaded the aircraft. In his words, "the pucker factor really went up".
They look so big, and so slow in the air, you wonder why it does not fall out if the air.
I've got a lot of miles in both...c5 stranded me often
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I’ll take first class in a 787...
Me too. Being on the 787 Engineering and production team at Spirit was a lot of fun. The technology we stood up and used were incredible.I’ll take first class in a 787...
C5 is a cool plane though but an absolute maintenance hog.
Back around 1996 I was on one flying back from Egypt to the US that lost an entire engine pod in flight. Landed safely but we were stuck for 3 days before we got rescheduled on a chartered commercial plane to continue back home. Only time I ever flew on one, my experience seems typical.
Nah, mpg is terrible.
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The C5M is more reliable than the older ones with the TF39 engines...those sucked...the CF6 is way better. I hated working on those pigs.
Yeah but the gpm is really goodNah, mpg is terrible.
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