{"id":53644,"date":"2023-11-03T21:55:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T20:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=53644"},"modified":"2025-11-03T00:47:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T23:47:17","slug":"a-tour-inside-the-worlds-largest-military-aircraft-the-c-5m-super-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/11\/03\/a-tour-inside-the-worlds-largest-military-aircraft-the-c-5m-super-galaxy\/","title":{"rendered":"A tour inside the world's largest military aircraft, the C-5M Super Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>55 years after its first flight, Lockheed's C-5 Galaxy remains today the largest military aircraft in the world.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/02\/28\/the-atypical-repair-in-spain-of-a-c-5m-super-galaxy-the-largest-aircraft-in-the-us-air-force\/\">The atypical repair in Spain of a C-5M Super Galaxy, the largest aircraft in the US Air Force<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/09\/26\/c-5m-super-galaxy-the-takeoff-process-of-the-largest-us-military-aircraft\/\">C-5M Super Galaxy: the takeoff process of the largest US military aircraft<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>The C-5 made its first flight in 1968. In 2006, the version currently in service in the USAF, the C-5M Super Galaxy, was developed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53306660912_de538225fb_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Equipped with four large General Electric F138-GE-100 turbofan engines<\/strong>, everything on this plane is enormous in size. Its dimensions are 75.31 meters long and 19.84 meters high, and its wings have a span of 67.89 meters, with a maximum takeoff weight of 381 tons. Its enormous wings have an area of 580 square meters.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53307884389_2337100384_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For its military transport work, <strong>the C-5M has a huge cargo hold that runs through the entire plane, from the nose to the tail<\/strong>. This aircraft can carry up to 127 tons of cargo and personnel.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53307884369_c87b4235d0_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Access to the cargo hold can be done through the nose or tail.<\/strong> The nose of the plane is raised above the cabin, while four doors open in the tail, one of which which serves as an access ramp.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53307769728_db9b4e787d_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Externally this plane is very famous, but <strong>the least known thing about the C-5M is its interior<\/strong>. A few days ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@SamEckholm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Eckholm<\/a> published an interesting video in which he shows us this giant of aviation inside:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Inside The Air Force&#039;s Largest Airplane | C-5 Super Galaxy\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o-zgjQVR1to?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here we can see some screenshots of this interesting video. <strong>This is one of the two access stairs to the upper floor.<\/strong> The one we see in the image is located near the rear ramp of the cargo hold. The other ladder is near the nose of the plane.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53308007100_1494ef9b50_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>What we see here is the upper deck of the plane<\/strong>, which has space to carry up to 80 seated passengers, as well as a kitchen and a bathroom.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53308007085_960ba8ea32_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>At the back of the second floor there are these curious circular doors<\/strong> that give access to the interior of the tail section of the plane.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53307776648_28fc4328f4_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The interior of the tail section of the C-5M.<\/strong> We also see the ladder that allows you to climb inside the drift.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53307776633_9b8abcd334_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The ladder that runs through the interior of the C-5M drift.<\/strong> This ladder gives access to the top of the stabilizers. You can see them in the video.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53308007095_a42a47e2c5_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photos: U.S. Air Force \/ Sam Eckholm.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>55 years after its first flight, Lockheed&#8217;s C-5 Galaxy remains today the largest military aircraft in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,11546],"tags":[5917,6761],"class_list":["post-53644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-military-aviation","tag-lockheed-c-5-galaxy","tag-united-states-air-force-usaf"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-11-17 01:33:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}