The last operational C-5A Galaxy airlifter in the U.S. Air Force inventory - takeoff at Westover Air Reserve Base, MA - landing, taxi, and parking at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, AZ to be retired to ...

Over a third of the US Air Force's fleet of 81 Lockheed C-5A/Bstrategic transport aircraft face the prospect of early retirement under two major reviews by the service. Lockheed Martin on 12 December ...

This video shows how NASA studied wingtip vortices using a C-5A Galaxy about 50 years ago. Although they dissipate at a certain distance from the wing, wingtip vortices, that form because of the ...

Top Air Force leaders are asking Congress to undo a requirement that prohibits the service from retiring C-5A aircraft as its cargo fleet is stressed from global warfighting operations. Air Force ...

[This article was first published in Army Sustainment Professional Bulletin, which was then called Army Logistician, volume 2, number 5 (September–October 1970), pages 12–13. The text is reproduced as ...