Both the nose and aft doors open, allowing ground crews to simultaneously load and off-load cargo from both ends, reducing cargo transfer times. It can carry oversized cargo over intercontinental ranges and can take off and land on relatively short runways. The C-5M Super Galaxy is equipped with five sets of landing gear, 28 wheels, four General Electric CF6-80C2-L1F (F-138) commercial engines, and a state-of-the-art maintenance diagnostics system. They are stationed at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware Travis AFB, California Lackland AFB, Texas and Westover Air Reserve Base, Massachusetts. The C-5M is a modernized version of the legacy C-5 designed and manufactured by Lockheed Martin. Its primary mission is to transport cargo and personnel for the Department of Defense.
It didn’t, admittedly, have the same appeal as evading enemy MiGs in the skies over Indonesia, but he’d had a good innings in the cockpit, and more fun than most.The C-5M Super Galaxy is a strategic transport aircraft and is the largest aircraft in the Air Force inventory. A varied and exotic career that had seen him deploy around the globe from South America to East Africa, and from Europe’s arctic north to the South China Sea, had given way to a posting to RAF Innsworth in Gloucester, at what was, in effect, the air force’s human resources department, responsible for every aspect of ‘light blue’ personnel and career management. After 20 years as a front-line pilot in the RAF he was now finally, and permanently, flying a desk.
Gp Capt Colin Adams had the radio on as he got ready for work, the Today programme a regular companion to his morning routine. For his new book Harrier 809, author Rowland White talked to some of those involved, and researched in official archives, to investigate one of British military aviation’s most enduring mysteries
23rd February 2022 Feature The question has gone unanswered for years: did RAF Canberra PR9s fly from Chilean bases during the Falklands War? Operation ‘Folklore’ was the codename given to a planned deployment - but, despite its eventual cancellation, rumours still abound.
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