Posted on Aug 14, 2018
C-5M Super Galaxy fleet will fly well into 2040s
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Lt Col Charlie Brown, when I was at Fort Bragg in 1970, we’d bus over to then Pope AFB so that we could jump. One of those times we went to Pope, one of the first C-5As was there (MAY-JUL timeframe).
I still have a poor quality Polaroid instant photo of it somewhere!
Interesting comments from an aviation historian about the C-5:
"After being one of the worst-run programs, ever, in its early years, it has evolved very slowly and with great difficulty into a nearly adequate strategic airlifter that unfortunately needs in-flight refueling or a ground stop for even the most routine long-distance flights. We spent a lot of money to make it capable of operating from unfinished airstrips near the front lines, when we never needed that capability or had any intention to use it." -Robert F. Dorr, aviation historian
Maybe the C-5M will out perform its predecessor!
I still have a poor quality Polaroid instant photo of it somewhere!
Interesting comments from an aviation historian about the C-5:
"After being one of the worst-run programs, ever, in its early years, it has evolved very slowly and with great difficulty into a nearly adequate strategic airlifter that unfortunately needs in-flight refueling or a ground stop for even the most routine long-distance flights. We spent a lot of money to make it capable of operating from unfinished airstrips near the front lines, when we never needed that capability or had any intention to use it." -Robert F. Dorr, aviation historian
Maybe the C-5M will out perform its predecessor!
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
Went to college with an engineering co-op student who worked on the C-5 program all 4 years of school.
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MSgt Stephen Council LTC (Join to see) LTC Stephen C. LTC Orlando Illi Col (Join to see) SP5 Mark Kuzinski SGT Mark Halmrast CPL Dave Hoover MSgt Ken "Airsoldier" Collins-Hardy 1SG Carl McAndrews MSgt John McGowan SMSgt Minister Gerald A. "Doc" Thomas SSgt GG-15 RET Jim Lint
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