Big Deal: The Air Force’s Largest Transport Craft, Powered By GE Engines, Taxis Into The Spotlight
Sam Worley
Tomas Kellner
February 20, 2020
There’s a reason the C-5M Super Galaxy plane looks like a whale with wings: The latest version of a military transport jet first developed 50 years ago by Lockheed, this behemoth can carry two battle tanks across the Pacific Ocean in a matter of hours on a single tank of jet fuel. In fact, it’s the largest transport aircraft in the U.S. Air Force’s entire fleet.
Galaxy Quest: We Went Inside A Plane Large Enough To Carry A Tank Around The World
Tomas Kellner
July 27, 2016
The latest model of the gigantic C-5 Galaxy military transport jet galumphed into the Oshkosh fly-in on Tuesday. The plane, which was the world’s largest aircraft when it first took off in 1968, helped launch GE’s commercial aviation business.