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 ...

CHICOPEE – After nearly four decades of flying tanks, fire trucks and heavy equipment to places all around the world, the last C-5A Galaxy jet in the U.S. Air Force took off from Westover Air Reserve ...

September 29, 2017: The U.S. Air Force retired its last C-5A transport in early September. The C-5 is still in service as a much modernized C-5M. The first production version of the C-5M transport ...

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 ...

This cover, from Nov. 13, 1972, shows the largest self-propelled aircraft maintenance access stand in place around the empennage of the Lockheed C-5A at Travis Air Force Base in California. The access ...

CHICOPEE — If a C-5A Galaxy military jet has ever flown over your head, you know it was impossible not to look sykward. The sound — whining, piercing, screeching, overpowering — recalls the lead-up to ...

The U.S. Air Force is nearing completion of a formal assessment to determine whether the aging C-5A Galaxy fleet should be retired, a service representative said March 1. The Air Force Fleet Viability ...

The US Air Force wants to start retiring its eight worst-performing Lockheed Martin C-5A Galaxy strategic transports, but is still awaiting Congressional approval. USAF officials have yet to be be ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Westover Air Reserve Base bid farewell to its last C-5A Galaxy, which took off on its final flight into retirement Thursday morning. The aircraft is headed to the Air Force ...