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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.
Rear doors of a C5 Galaxy. Given the explosive manner in which the rear doors failed, sabotage was initially suspected. [14] Many of the components were looted from the crash site, thereby complicating the investigation; the U.S. Air Force paid a bounty for parts from the wreckage to recover them from the local populace.
A pair of well-worn baby shoes worn by an orphan evacuated from Vietnam during Operation Babylift. With the central Vietnamese city of Da Nang having fallen in March, and with Saigon under attack, on 3 April 1975, U.S. President Gerald Ford announced that the U.S. government would begin airlifting orphans out of Saigon on a series of 30 planned flights aboard Military Airlift Command (MAC) C ...
TF39s on a C-5 Galaxy, from the rear TF-39 on display at the Museum of Aviation View looking into the fan showing snubbered blades on the inner half-stage and inlet guide vanes in the outer duct in front of the full stage. The TF39 was a revolutionary 1960s engine rated from 41,000 to 43,000 lb f (191 to 205 kN) of thrust. It introduced use of ...
The 22nd Airlift Squadron, sometimes written as 22d Airlift Squadron, is part of the 60th Air Mobility Wing at Travis Air Force Base, California.It operates C-5M Galaxy aircraft supporting the United States Air Force global reach mission worldwide.
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This article lists the airlift squadrons of the United States Air Force. The purpose of an airlift squadron is to organize and effect the delivery of supplies or personnel, usually via military transport aircraft such as the C-17 Globemaster III and C-130 Hercules .