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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.
The accident marked the second operational loss and first fatal crash for the C-5 Galaxy fleet, and is the third deadliest accident involving a U.S. military aircraft after the 1968 Kham Duc C-130 shootdown and Arrow Air Flight 1285R.
Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, a military transport aircraft; C-5 North Star, a 1940s Canadian military aircraft; HMS C5, a 1906 Royal Navy C-class submarine; USS C-5 (SS-16), a 1908 United States Navy C-class submarine; USS San Francisco (C-5), an 1889 United States Navy protected cruiser; Albatros C.V, a World War I German military reconnaissance aircraft
It was directed by Barry Shear and based on the true story of the first crash of a wide-body aircraft, that of Eastern Air Lines Flight 401, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar which crashed in the Florida Everglades near Miami on the night of December 29, 1972. The film more or less follows the true events of the crash, although the names of key ...
1.1 C-5 Galaxy. 1.2 L-1011 Tristar. 1.3 L-1049 ... This article is a list of aircraft that were manufactured by the Lockheed Corporation and its successor Lockheed ...
The Winnie Mae is a modified Lockheed 5C Vega flown by Wiley Post during the 1930 National Air Races, winning first place with a time of 9 hours, 9 minutes, and 4 seconds, as well as setting records for the fastest around-the-world flight in 1931, with a time of 8 days, 15 hours, and 51 minutes, the first solo around-the-world flight in 1933, [1] and the flight altitude record in 1934 ...
A C-5 Galaxy takes off from a runway at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan. In December 1989, the 22d participated in Operation Just Cause , which ended the dictatorship of Panama's Gen. Manuel Noriega . In August 1990, the unit provided strategic airlift in support of the massive coalition forces buildup in Southwest Asia prior to Operations Desert ...
The Martin JRM Mars was one of the aircraft featured in season 1. A typical Mighty Planes episode highlights one plane or group of them. Aircraft featured range from the Orbis flying eye hospital to the largest passenger jet ever built, to Air Force aircraft such as the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy.