My son used to fly these. He would say that was the best part of his military career. First he enlisted, then became a crew chief for C-5’s, then got his choice to fly this plane. A dream come true. He is only 34 and will retire when he is 38. A very nice career!
@@kellyh4035While he was enlisted he earned an undergrad degreee, which enabled him to apply to officer training school. (One must have a four year degree to become an officer). After being accepted there, and finishing the program, he became an officer. Then pilot training began. It’s quite possible to earn wings after becoming enlisted. Fact checked.
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The same thing on land, but in reverse. On final, it looks like it's just hanging in the air. You think, "That plane is going to stall at any second!" But nope, it come in and lands normally.
I've been on this jet four times. Every time I pray while sweating bullets, hoping it will get off the ground. It's like slow motion. But it climbs and climbs until it gets to where it needs to be. Truly a wonder to behold.
Worked on the C-5A in the 70’s. Fun to work on and always loved the sound at takeoff. The crews would circle around the base for training referred as “ flying around the flag pole “. It always looked like they were flying slow because they are so BIG. Btw Orville and Wilbur Wright could have flown their first flight inside the cargo compartment!
I used to fly spam cans in northern New Jersey. What was then called Stewart ANGB was a joint-use facility with a bunch of C-5s on the field. I still remember one day we had gone up there for instrument practice. We were holding short for departure waiting for a C-5 to land; you're absolutely right; it looked like it was just hanging in the air as it came over the threshold. That had to be 20-25 years ago, and it's still etched in my mind.
You think they look big on the outside? Stand inside one! My dad worked at MAC in southern IL. I watched these things take off and land many times. I remember asking my dad, how can they fly so slow? Years later at Ellington field my son and I were watching a C-5 do a demo take off, my son asked how can they fly so slow. The C-5 was empty with minimum fuel...
The Wright brothers would absolutely be in awe and probably shit their pants watching one of these take off! What they started was amazing! I got to see one take off with those engines and I can honestly say it gave me goosebumps and pride to be an American! I damn near cried! Thank you 🙏 to all of our servicemen and women for your service I appreciate you all ❤️😊
@@rodneyconover4170 howdy! I just came across this video of the short runway full thrust takeoff and your comment. In reading through what you said, it gave me full body goosebumps so I know the way you feel when you see these unbelievable engineering masterpieces in action. I was thinking the same, how proud I am to be an American! I live in Milwaukee Wisconsin, born and raised. And often I think about the Wright brothers as well as Mr. Harley and Mr. Davidson and Ole Evinrude both of Milwaukee. In 1903 they were actually sharing a workshop in the Third Ward, the 3 of them hell bent on bringing their dreams to life in the form of the two wheeled motorcycle as well as the outboard motor. Both of which are just as revolutionary and world changing as the Wright’s “airplane” 🤘🤙🏻❤
engines have a distinctive roar. was a kid at Scott AFB and went out and watched the first C-5 land there. it was a dot in the sky and just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger. pop was in C-141s.
@@brainmind4070 Only when people are actually standing next to one, or they see vehicles being loaded through the front, do people fully realize the size of this beast.
I used to work at a junk yard under the flight path of the C5's. Mather Air Force Base. They shook the cars about every 5 minutes. Just watching them fly above us, it seemed that they were going about 5 miles an hour. You were probably one of the pilots in 1992.
@@sovereignnews3336 Ha ha, that definitely sounds like our C-5’s. Actually, I flew them from 1999 until 2019. I was always a Dover guy. Have you heard the M-model, CF-6 engines? They’re much quieter now. Such good memories…
@@sovereignnews3336 I’ve done a million touch ‘n goes in the C-5; lots of fun! At Dover, runways 1/19 and 14/32 make an “X” pattern. And as such, sometimes we would do touch ‘n goes in a figure-8 pattern, leaving the gear down with well under a minute between each rotation until the next touch down. Even though I live in NJ I have projects going on in Delaware and so I frequently get to go right by my old stomping ground. No matter how far away I ever go, Dover and the C-5 will always be a big part of who and what I am! Such wonderful memories…
This old girl has been around a long time. My first year Engineering class drove down to Martin Marietta in 1971 to tour the production of the C5. Yea, we're both that damn old.
@@kennethmelnychuk9737 I have always liked russia's approach on this they have top intake ducts that provide the air to take off and close them open the main ducts for flight. Allow them to operate in some garbage areas and just flattening a dirt patch will work. Not sure if all their fighters use it though.
Thanks Jose. Was wondering where? Clearly some time ago, do you you have any idea why it was there? And why they would put this plane in such a, shall we say, unsuitable location? I'm assuming it was travelling light (empty) on take off, but it must have delivered something? Really curious as to why it's there.
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Great work. Made me think of Doolittle's raiders taking B-25s off the deck of a carrier in 1942. I did have the pleasure of meeting Dick Cole, Doolittle's copilot.
When C-5s shoot touch and goes at Dover AFB, you can stand there and watch them come over the fence and swear up and down that you could walk alongside at a brisk pace. Amazing to see something that big just hanging in the air.
Even though filmed in 2016, that's definitely the sound of the old C-5A/B TF39 engines, and not the newer C-5M F138. Those TF39s had a very unique grinding sound.
Never get enough of the sound of jet engine spooling up to the max! ❤️ And it looks almost unreal an aircraft that big flying, almost like a slow motion!
I actually got the opportunity to be a passenger on a C-5 in 1987. From Travis to Montgomery. I remember the loadmaster telling me the cargo was mainly parachutes en route to Europe. Monster size plane.
Back in the late 1970's when I was a kid my dad was stationed at the old Kelly AFB in San Antonio Texas and I'd see that giant C5 Galaxy fly around the base and the engines at full throttle and it looked like it was about to fall out of the sky.. Amazing sight to see.. the B52's would take off also and it seemed like the whole sky was trembling cause of them 8 jet engines under those wings,, Awesome...
Now there's a crew that knows how to read aircraft performance data and apply aircraft weight & balance, density altitude, elevation, runway length, and power required vs. power available into the takeoff equation. Well done !! I'll bet the pucker factor was pretty high as they rotated !!
Amazing! As an MD-11 pilot, in my view if he had held the brakes at that engine setting for much longer, severe structural damage certainly would have occurred! Landing gear can only take so much stress, and it was necessary to use the entire runway for departure.
I worked on serial # 5 at Pope AFB. The C5 can take off with 120 tons of cargo, but they never load more than 80 tons. They lengthened the runway at Pope by a mile to accommodate the C5A.
Is Pope outside Sumter SC. ? I was coming into Sumter one morning at sunrise. 2 F16s went vertical at the end of the runway. One of the coolest things I've ever seen. That was 06 i think.
I am Australian. I was in LA in 1980. I drove my hire car out to Palmdale & there were 5 or 6 on the flight line . It was in Jan & I got there too late to see much but I am glad I went. Had a good close up look at the nose of one at Atlanta Airport. A stewardess was sitting on a ledge behind the First Officer. I saw one flying at home in Melbourne on a demonstration tour a few years earlier.
The C5 looks like it's going slow, but they are so large, that it's an optical illusion. From first-hand experience, having flown on a C5, the acceleration pushes you back in your seat on takeoff. It's a lot of power.
Looks like its going slow but when taken in context to the sheer size of a C5M Super Galaxy, he was actually cooking right along. That aircraft is the size of a 747 if you put them next to each other.
Yup watching these take off were a sight because just never looked like they were going fast. Like someone else said having flying on these as well these thing will plant you in your seat. I had to do fire watch (I think that’s what it’s called) on an engine test after new one installed and what an experience standing about 10’ in front of this thing with one engine going full throttle!
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Wow, that was something else. Almost too short of a runway for that plane - that was close! And it's exactly why they had to build up max power before releasing the brakes & starting their roll... 😲
That's Ilopango Airport El Salvador, back in the 80s those planes were making weekly trips transporting weapons and equipment for the government, backed by Reagan, every shipment was worth over a million dollar of military supplies, i remember unloading huey's out the C5, im assuming that video was taken maybe late 80s, the runway has been improved now..
Was that part of the Iran Contra Scandal that led to the Cocaine/Crack epidemic in the 80s. I recall reading about a Reporter being Black Listed for investigating The CIA's role in how they helped traffic Cocaine into America to support a War in Central America.
Watch the 2017 movie about just that Black-Ops program called "American Made". Starred Tom Cruise and was a very good movie. Does not put our federal alphabet agencies in a good light. Irregardless of the president, they seem to have their own agenda.
Thanks for the amazing video. That C5 took off without a second to spare. Such a powerful aircraft. I recall a video I saw a while back of, I believe, a C-130 Hercules using side mounted rockets to assist with STOL at small airports. I'm not sure if it was real or not but it sure looked cool. It would be interesting to see some rockets mounted on the side of a C5 😀👍
Those JATO packs have been discontinued. The Blue Angel escort C-130 "Fat Albert" used to use them in the air shows. There might be a few around for emergencies, but with the power from new engines and propeller blades on the J models, they aren't really needed.
damn I used to love seeing these things fly low right behind my house back in the day. The sound of those turbofans was just glorious, and the way they looked like they were just crawling along through the air during landing looked insane!
I believe the gargantuan size adds to the "slow" illusion. I saw a C-5 flying overhead relatively low (guessing 15K ft) and my first impression was that it was barely moving.
I remember the first time I saw one take off. It was an airshow at Lockheed in Marietta shortly after it was first built. Holy S***! It was insane! This plane is SO huge!
I flew on one back to get to the first gulf war, Hawaii to Thailand to Saudi Arabia. It was an interesting flight. there is a passenger cabin upstairs that has about 70 or so seats.
The published runway length is about 7400 ft. It’s not a short runway at all but close to minimum allowed for a C-5 to operate. The C-5 looks slow due to its size but be assured, the flap setting, military power (max allowed) available, weight of plane, temperature and wind, center of gravity data, calculated by the crew, made the departure possible. Gladly, no problems with the engines, otherwise, disaster. Ret USAF pilot
@@Rhaman68 I used to work in Rancho Cordova. We were in the flight path of the C-5s. That gigantic plane always looked like it was going 5 mph. Mather Air Force Base. Sactown.
Standard Short Field takeoff. Hold the brakes while revving up to max power, until the brakes won't hold back anymore. The 5 has some awesome capabilities.
I was stationed at Travis AFB also and I would sometimes go to the end of the runway on my motorcycle and watch the C-5’s land, (and the C-141’s and KC-135’s).
Travis 1994-1997, KC-10s, C-5s, tubes of pain (c-141s) and the rebuilding of the base with BRAC money. Don't miss the base, but I do miss Northern California!
I once drove a Shelby 427 Cobra with open side pipes from Santa Barbara, to L.A., and my ears rang for 4 days afterwards. That experience had nothing on standing next to a 5A at LAX one afternoon - without hearing protection, as it was taxiing into position to takeoff - these suckers could damn near blow your eardrums at idle, and when those engines spooled up...OMG! It isn't the overall noise that these engines made - they really weren't bad once the plane was in the air, nor were they bad after they passed you on the ground - it was the sheer scream that they made: a U-2 or a SR-71 actually made more noise overall, but it was that scream...that scream could make your head explode. A 747-200 engine at idle typically ran about 80db: these suckers had to be twice that - at idle! I feel sorry for everybody & every window next to this runway!
Those were the old Rolls Royce engines. Max thrust of 50 thousand lbs each. The new engines have a totally different sound. No growl and not as loud while making significantly more thrust while using less fuel.
@@thomasblankinship98 Cool! I remember sitting in a park bench with my friend (seven years ago), an aircraft "expert" when we watched this huge aircraft coming in for a landing at DFW. I said, "Tony, what's that?" It was dusk and we really couldn't tell. "Aw, that a 747." As it came closer (with seriously bright landing lights), I said, "No, I don't think so." We watched a little longer when the aircraft passed over the top of us almost at treetop level, its engines growling LOUD. "Man, that's a Galaxy!" Tony said, and it was seriously a spiritual experience for me, seeing that massive C-5 aircraft fly! Those engines had a sound unlike ANY other aircraft I ever saw come in for a landing.
@@thomasblankinship98 those are General Electric TF-39 engines with about 43,000 pounds of thrust on each engine. The upgraded engines are CF6. With just over 50,000 pounds on each engine.
I’m a USAF vet from the 1970’s and understand the ‘Fred’ reference. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂. Yup 👍 110%. F’ing Ridicules Economic Disaster. 🤣😂😁. Miss those days. 😊. Proud years for me. 😁😁
Definitely incorrect you can simply look up aircraft rotation speeds. They range between 160-180MPH 113 knots would be 98MPH far too slow for a C-5 to rotate.
They go much faster than 113 knots and from such an angle it looks slow it’s an optical illusion trust me. I used to see it from ground eye level daily.
@@tristanholland6445 Sorry but your math is incorrect, 1 knot = 1.15078 mph. So 113kts is 130mph (209kmh) And I suggest you scroll down in the comments to JumboJetPilot's and read his post. I've been a aircraft engineer for 27 years, I assure you 113kts is fine for a lightly loaded aircraft, and he actually rotated shortly after the 113kt point. And I can also assure you there is no optical illusion, I was using a fixed reference point and the exact known length of the aircraft (75m) to work this out. Simply distance over time.
Holy shit. I've seen c5s take off before, but don't remember them screaming like that. He must have went past TO power to omfg power. He used every inch of runway. I was always amazed because they look like they are not going fast enough to rotate.
They used to take off all the time when I was stationed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. You could hear it clear across post and Fort Campbell is a BIG Post. It SCREAMS BAD ASS!
@@JamesShedinn yep, the An-225. Largest airplane in the world. I've actually seen it, for whatever reason it was diverted to Fairbanks International airport instead of Anchorage, in Alaska. I live in Fairbanks, so I actually got to go see it. Six massive engines, it's a beauty, and a beast.
Reminds me of the conversation between the First Officer and Captain Tupolev in The Hunt for Red October. "Captain, engineer reports 105 percent on the reactor possible, but not recommended." "Go to 105 percent on the reactor."
Ever been on a commercial flight that they spool up the engines with the brake on and then release the brakes to take off ? I have many times at southeast Alaska airports with short runways on Alaska airlines like Sitka Ketchikan Cordova and wrangell
I actually live in AK, interior mind you but I've been down south and seen some of those large aircraft take off from short runways. It's definitely cool, but in all honesty I couldn't love down there, humidity is a killer.
Most airline flights do that at Orange County, CA (SNA). It's flat terrain, near sea-level elevation, and usually benign weather, but a 5700' runway and noise-sensitive areas all around. They get up to altitude quickly and then power down a bit for a couple minutes until they get out over the ocean.
@@mattbartley2843 yeah I almost mentioned that airport in my post also. It used to be a Great place to watch the power of the 757 on display 👍. Unfortunately most of them are going out of service at least as passenger jets
On the lineup: crew we are cleared for takeoff, takeoff power for a TRT - Standing Takeoff. Advancing throttles NOW. FE 15, 20, time. Brake release. Plane starts rolling with probably 62.5 per cent flaps rather than the standard 40 per cent. Before they increased the runway length at Norfolk NAS, we used to do that all the time, and even when they lengthened the runway, we still had to do it because of runway available.
The C-5 was designed to take off and land on unprepared surfaces, ie battlefield conditions and during its test flights did exactly that... it can come in very steep and slow because it can reverse its inboard engines in flight, and it can vary the air pressure in its tires in flight to give the aircraft high floatation landing gear.... its an amazing plane
@@paulmurphy773 most people don't know that. The AF doesn't like it to be known . But they brag so much on the C17's ability to do what the C5 did in the late 60's. Although the honeycomb skins on the bottom really don't like gravel.
My grandfather flew them in the late 60's early 70's as a test pilot with Lockheed. I remember him telling me stories about doing low speed approaches into short runways while testing. Also flew as a training observer on missions to Israel during the Yom Kippur war. Flew a LOT of different aircraft in his time. Ended his career with 25xxx hours in something like 53 different aircraft. Always loved the C5 because he was one of the lead pilots while it was being developed. Still have an old painting of an original C5A he had hanging in his den/office!
The massive dust on rotate is not from the engines its from the lift produced by the wings with flaps down. Liftoff not a problem with that much ground effect to jump u up at the treeline
They had those engines howlin'. Both the Pilot & Co-Pilot must have been standing on the brakes to get a run-up like that. Love the dust cloud at the end.
It looks like it accelerates so slow which is an illusion. I've been in one that had a short runway, Inside you are facing the rear of the plane and it feels like your lap belt is holding you to the ceiling of a silo
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My son used to fly these. He would say that was the best part of his military career. First he enlisted, then became a crew chief for C-5’s, then got his choice to fly this plane. A dream come true. He is only 34 and will retire when he is 38. A very nice career!
If he enlisted, how did he become an officer with wings?
You either need to fact check or correct your description.
@@kellyh4035While he was enlisted he earned an undergrad degreee, which enabled him to apply to officer training school. (One must have a four year degree to become an officer). After being accepted there, and finishing the program, he became an officer. Then pilot training began.
It’s quite possible to earn wings after becoming enlisted. Fact checked.
Nobody cares.
@@jankirschke7425Sounds like you did something right.👍✌️
@@Highland_Mooyou’re a sad person
Co-pilot: how much power do you need?
Pilot: yes.
Pilot: "Co-pilot, what's the maximum power setting?"
Co-pilot: "10, sir"
Pilot: "OK, set it to 11"
😂🤣😄😃
Co-pilot puts Spinal Tap on the flight deck stereo
@@Marc-dm1fh but this one goes to 11!
@@agwrangler That album gets 11/10 stars on Amazon reviews
11 is set -said the co-pilot nervously knowing he just pushed the levers into the tenth notch a bit harder than usual*
The C5 didn't take off, the planet just backed away.
Haha True ! LOL
Chuck Norris was piloting
@@ScottyBingham - who the hell is this Chuck Norris that all you Americans get stiffies over?
No, I'm pretty sure the plane just took off.
@@markfox1545 There used to be a planet between Mars and Jupiter that refused Chuck Norris landing permission. He did a round-house kick. Now it's an asteroid field.
That was no super nova. That was Chuck Norris lighting his cigar.
There are 5 million players in World of Warcraft - because Chuck Norris allows them to live.
A deadly viper bit Chuck Norris on the ankle. After 5 days of agony, the viper died.
Chuck Norris was supposed to die 5 years ago. Death has been too afraid to tell him.
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Flight Engineer: How much thrust do you need, Captain?
Pilot: All of it!
C-5: **laughs and lumbers forward with the acceleration of a cargo ship**
The C-5 never looks like it's moving fast enough to get lift, but then it just lumbers into the sky!
The same thing on land, but in reverse. On final, it looks like it's just hanging in the air. You think, "That plane is going to stall at any second!" But nope, it come in and lands normally.
I know right? They are an amazing plane. The cargo capacity is astounding as well. I flew in one years ago, a great ride!
Love the look of the C5; take-off and landing.
Dude, this is so true. I LOVED watching them take off and land.
To me it almost looked like they were riding the brakes or something. That or Im severely underestimating the takeoff weight
I've been on this jet four times. Every time I pray while sweating bullets, hoping it will get off the ground. It's like slow motion. But it climbs and climbs until it gets to where it needs to be. Truly a wonder to behold.
Worked on the C-5A in the 70’s. Fun to work on and always loved the sound at takeoff. The crews would circle around the base for training referred as “ flying around the flag pole “. It always looked like they were flying slow because they are so BIG. Btw Orville and Wilbur Wright could have flown their first flight inside the cargo compartment!
I used to fly spam cans in northern New Jersey. What was then called Stewart ANGB was a joint-use facility with a bunch of C-5s on the field. I still remember one day we had gone up there for instrument practice. We were holding short for departure waiting for a C-5 to land; you're absolutely right; it looked like it was just hanging in the air as it came over the threshold. That had to be 20-25 years ago, and it's still etched in my mind.
You think they look big on the outside? Stand inside one! My dad worked at MAC in southern IL. I watched these things take off and land many times. I remember asking my dad, how can they fly so slow? Years later at Ellington field my son and I were watching a C-5 do a demo take off, my son asked how can they fly so slow. The C-5 was empty with minimum fuel...
The Wright brothers would absolutely be in awe and probably shit their pants watching one of these take off! What they started was amazing! I got to see one take off with those engines and I can honestly say it gave me goosebumps and pride to be an American! I damn near cried! Thank you 🙏 to all of our servicemen and women for your service I appreciate you all ❤️😊
@@rodneyconover4170 howdy! I just came across this video of the short runway full thrust takeoff and your comment. In reading through what you said, it gave me full body goosebumps so I know the way you feel when you see these unbelievable engineering masterpieces in action. I was thinking the same, how proud I am to be an American! I live in Milwaukee Wisconsin, born and raised. And often I think about the Wright brothers as well as Mr. Harley and Mr. Davidson and Ole Evinrude both of Milwaukee. In 1903 they were actually sharing a workshop in the Third Ward, the 3 of them hell bent on bringing their dreams to life in the form of the two wheeled motorcycle as well as the outboard motor. Both of which are just as revolutionary and world changing as the Wright’s “airplane” 🤘🤙🏻❤
engines have a distinctive roar. was a kid at Scott AFB and went out and watched the first C-5 land there. it was a dot in the sky and just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger. pop was in C-141s.
I heard the captain’s original radio transmission, “Scotty, I need more power!!”
"I'm giving her all she's got, captain."
Dammit Capt I'm an engineman. Not a magician!
Proof the C5 can take off going 3 miles per hour.
It's going a lot faster than it looks. It's just so big, it takes a lot longer than most planes to travel its own length.
@@brainmind4070 😐
@@brainmind4070 Only when people are actually standing next to one, or they see vehicles being loaded through the front, do people fully realize the size of this beast.
@@3-2-1-. 82 yards worth.
@@brainmind4070 woosh
I spent 20 years flying the C-5. Good times!
I used to work at a junk yard under the flight path of the C5's. Mather Air Force Base.
They shook the cars about every 5 minutes. Just watching them fly above us, it seemed that they were going about 5 miles an hour. You were probably one of the pilots in 1992.
@@sovereignnews3336 Ha ha, that definitely sounds like our C-5’s. Actually, I flew them from 1999 until 2019. I was always a Dover guy. Have you heard the M-model, CF-6 engines? They’re much quieter now. Such good memories…
@@jumboJetPilot I also did landscaping near Mather Air Force Base and could tell the time every time one went over.
Five minutes. Touch and go...
@@sovereignnews3336 I’ve done a million touch ‘n goes in the C-5; lots of fun! At Dover, runways 1/19 and 14/32 make an “X” pattern. And as such, sometimes we would do touch ‘n goes in a figure-8 pattern, leaving the gear down with well under a minute between each rotation until the next touch down. Even though I live in NJ I have projects going on in Delaware and so I frequently get to go right by my old stomping ground. No matter how far away I ever go, Dover and the C-5 will always be a big part of who and what I am! Such wonderful memories…
Section 107 of the 1976 Copyright Law.
and 5 years later, that dust is still settling...
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@coolbear6441 and the C-5 is still climbing.
LOL
That runway had more technology than the camera used to film the video.
lolol
Haha.
The world needs more complainers …… might as well cancel you tube videos made before you where born
@@nadronnocojr you okay?
And ur mouth might louder than those c5 jet Scream.
This old girl has been around a long time. My first year Engineering class drove down to Martin Marietta in 1971 to tour the production of the C5. Yea, we're both that damn old.
But can you takeoff from a short runway?
That must have been a cool day out Warren.
Can’t beat an interesting field trip😎👍🏻
Lockheed.
@@wnleon I spent 30 years building aircraft there starting with the C5 Galaxy and ending on the F35 Lightning , it was a career not just a job
Jet engines love runways with lots of dust and small rocks.
Especially C5s. Those things break on a good day.
If I were the flight engineer, I'd be checking my gauges on the trip up. And I'd climb out and count the fan blades.
@@Knoxvillemoto and F16’s with their intake so close to the ground
@@kennethmelnychuk9737 I have always liked russia's approach on this they have top intake ducts that provide the air to take off and close them open the main ducts for flight. Allow them to operate in some garbage areas and just flattening a dirt patch will work.
Not sure if all their fighters use it though.
@@bryanmartinez6600 MiG-29 and derivatives do, Su-27 and derivatives don't
Wow! Almost ran out of runway. Love those engines!
Wow! Amazing! That it can become airborne at such a low speed on such a short runway! And those engines! It's a symphony!
Ilopango Airport, El Salvador, ICAO: MSSS
(In case anybody is interested where this takeoff took place..)
I passed through Ilipango and looked different than video.
That's CRAZY!!
@@franklimon6311 on a cloudy day everything looks different
Thank you, Jose! Appreciate the info.
Thanks Jose. Was wondering where? Clearly some time ago, do you you have any idea why it was there? And why they would put this plane in such a, shall we say, unsuitable location?
I'm assuming it was travelling light (empty) on take off, but it must have delivered something? Really curious as to why it's there.
THRUST. Great piloting and knowing exactly what your bird can do. I personally would have soiled my shorts looking at the end of runway
I needed all 8,400 feet with maximum payload of 840,000 pounds of 2 m1 a1 battle tanks. Thanks for watching captain and shift commander LABonte air mobility command patriot wing commander usaforce. MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU.
If you'd done that out an open window, that might have made the difference getting the thing up in the air in time! ;)
STOL = Short take off & landing. Basic piloting: Full brakes, full power then release for the dart fwd.
Stevie Wonder was the pilot.
@@soujrnr Guess he was looking for a Ribbon in the Sky!
Great work. Made me think of Doolittle's raiders taking B-25s off the deck of a carrier in 1942. I did have the pleasure of meeting Dick Cole, Doolittle's copilot.
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Confirmed: A shipping container can fly if it has large enough engines.
An amazing sight to see ...
This is more like a flying storage warehouse than a shipping container
You can clearly see it didn't take off, it's just that Earth round, so it disappeared underneath it...
That's Dodge's philosopy now. Put a big engine in every "boat" they make.
And enough flaps and leading edge slats...
When C-5s shoot touch and goes at Dover AFB, you can stand there and watch them come over the fence and swear up and down that you could walk alongside at a brisk pace. Amazing to see something that big just hanging in the air.
Amazing how gigantic jets from the groynd look as if they're flying well below stall speed.
Even though filmed in 2016, that's definitely the sound of the old C-5A/B TF39 engines, and not the newer C-5M F138. Those TF39s had a very unique grinding sound.
I like to call that the sound of Miracle Ear. Because too much exposure to those monsters will find you wearing hearing aids.
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Never get enough of the sound of jet engine spooling up to the max! ❤️
And it looks almost unreal an aircraft that big flying, almost like a slow motion!
Damn those two pilots have nerves of Steel to take off from a short Runway.
Those wheel brakes are the true heroes here.
I actually got the opportunity to be a passenger on a C-5 in 1987. From Travis to Montgomery. I remember the loadmaster telling me the cargo was mainly parachutes en route to Europe. Monster size plane.
Interesting how all of sudden this video got recommended to so many people. Cool plane. Has the older engines. New ones sound a lot different.
I know its for better performance and economy, but the old TF-39's jist had an iconic sound!
Back in the late 1970's when I was a kid my dad was stationed at the old Kelly AFB in San Antonio Texas and I'd see that giant C5 Galaxy fly around the base and the engines at full throttle and it looked like it was about to fall out of the sky.. Amazing sight to see.. the B52's would take off also and it seemed like the whole sky was trembling cause of them 8 jet engines under those wings,, Awesome...
Now there's a crew that knows how to read aircraft performance data and apply aircraft weight & balance, density altitude, elevation, runway length, and power required vs. power available into the takeoff equation. Well done !! I'll bet the pucker factor was pretty high as they rotated !!
A cloud of dust and a hearty, Hi-Yo, Silver!
And AWAY!
That engine sound never gets old
Amazing! As an MD-11 pilot, in my view if he had held the brakes at that engine setting for much longer, severe structural damage certainly would have occurred! Landing gear can only take so much stress, and it was necessary to use the entire runway for departure.
Well the MD-11 isn’t a STOL plane either. Coming from an A330 pilot.
@@wacobiplane1530 what is a STOL plane ?
@@jerrykinnin7941 short take off and landing..
@@kris54241 thanks
Why doesn't this play Muse side rockets to take off on short runwaysso not to put so much stress on the frame and the landing gear
I worked on serial # 5 at Pope AFB. The C5 can take off with 120 tons of cargo, but they never load more than 80 tons. They lengthened the runway at Pope by a mile to accommodate the C5A.
Is Pope outside Sumter SC. ?
I was coming into Sumter one morning at sunrise. 2 F16s went vertical at the end of the runway. One of the coolest things I've ever seen. That was 06 i think.
I am Australian. I was in LA in 1980. I drove my hire car out to Palmdale & there were 5 or 6 on the flight line . It was in Jan & I got there too late to see much but I am glad I went. Had a good close up look at the nose of one at Atlanta Airport. A stewardess was sitting on a ledge behind the First Officer.
I saw one flying at home in Melbourne on a demonstration tour a few years earlier.
Damn it looked like it was going 45 knots at the end.
The C5 looks like it's going slow, but they are so large, that it's an optical illusion. From first-hand experience, having flown on a C5, the acceleration pushes you back in your seat on takeoff. It's a lot of power.
Looks like its going slow but when taken in context to the sheer size of a C5M Super Galaxy, he was actually cooking right along. That aircraft is the size of a 747 if you put them next to each other.
Yup watching these take off were a sight because just never looked like they were going fast. Like someone else said having flying on these as well these thing will plant you in your seat. I had to do fire watch (I think that’s what it’s called) on an engine test after new one installed and what an experience standing about 10’ in front of this thing with one engine going full throttle!
@@westekforest1712 hence, not only for C-5, but also for B-747, Hi-Bypass Jets were Designed
@@msk3905 10ft in front of those massive engine(s) 😱? Man, u do both nerve n balls made of steel!
“C-5 Galaxy” and “short runway” are two things you never want to here in the same sentence
@Woody Meggs i’m a dyslexic using my iPad speech to text system give me a break
@@gwydionrusso3206 Standards of English (or whatever it is in life) don't change because you different in some way. Have a nice day and be sure to subscribe!
I used to watch these land and take off regularly as a kid in the 80s, as I lived near Greenham Common Airbase.
Scotty I need more power!!
But Captain I’m giving her all I got☝️
Wow, that was something else. Almost too short of a runway for that plane - that was close! And it's exactly why they had to build up max power before releasing the brakes & starting their roll... 😲
7300 ft so not too short a runway
Worked on both the A and B models back in the day. That plane made you a mechanic
That's Ilopango Airport El Salvador, back in the 80s those planes were making weekly trips transporting weapons and equipment for the government, backed by Reagan, every shipment was worth over a million dollar of military supplies, i remember unloading huey's out the C5, im assuming that video was taken maybe late 80s, the runway has been improved now..
Was that part of the Iran Contra Scandal that led to the Cocaine/Crack epidemic in the 80s. I recall reading about a Reporter being Black Listed for investigating The CIA's role in how they helped traffic Cocaine into America to support a War in Central America.
Yeah, good thing Reagan stabiliized Central America...for freedom!
Cocaine
Watch the 2017 movie about just that Black-Ops program called "American Made". Starred Tom Cruise and was a very good movie. Does not put our federal alphabet agencies in a good light. Irregardless of the president, they seem to have their own agenda.
@@SportsInMotionMF
Irregardless?
That’s not a word.
Thanks for the amazing video. That C5 took off without a second to spare. Such a powerful aircraft. I recall a video I saw a while back of, I believe, a C-130 Hercules using side mounted rockets to assist with STOL at small airports. I'm not sure if it was real or not but it sure looked cool. It would be interesting to see some rockets mounted on the side of a C5 😀👍
Those JATO packs have been discontinued. The Blue Angel escort C-130 "Fat Albert" used to use them in the air shows. There might be a few around for emergencies, but with the power from new engines and propeller blades on the J models, they aren't really needed.
@@stephensteinhauer3346 Thanks, appreciate the info.
Awesome! I've seen one or two slightly hairy C-5 takeoffs, being a retired C-5 crew chief. That one was the hairiest!!!
I worked 70-460 for 6 months, before going to C-141 Transit.
so awesome--love the sound
you gotta love the sound if it's hard to tell which pixel is the plane...240p, really?
damn I used to love seeing these things fly low right behind my house back in the day. The sound of those turbofans was just glorious, and the way they looked like they were just crawling along through the air during landing looked insane!
That pilot has some balls 😳 ✌️
Female or non binary pilot
@@bobbell6789 I will stick with Pilot, male or female Bob no disrespect to anyone but that’s the world I grew up in 😳
I've never seen a plane take off that was that big going that slow. It's amazing that it got enough lift. Great pilot!
I believe the gargantuan size adds to the "slow" illusion. I saw a C-5 flying overhead relatively low (guessing 15K ft) and my first impression was that it was barely moving.
The wings are huge. I've been inside of them on the assembly line. A 6'4" man can stand and not but his head inside. Massive amounts of lift.
@@thomasblankinship98 anything that can transport an Abrahms MBT is probably bigger than most people can imagine
Actual take off speed is between 148 - 180. It is actually going pretty fast at takeoff.
Have you seen the 🇺🇦 antonov??? That is also a beastm
I remember the first time I saw one take off. It was an airshow at Lockheed in Marietta shortly after it was first built. Holy S***! It was insane! This plane is SO huge!
I flew on one back to get to the first gulf war, Hawaii to Thailand to Saudi Arabia. It was an interesting flight. there is a passenger cabin upstairs that has about 70 or so seats.
And luggage room for 700!
that c5 metallic shriek never fails to impress, usually you hear it before you see it
One of the coolest rides I ever had, C5 Galaxy, from Sigonella, Sicily to Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany.
No jet engine sounds better than the screaming TF39 ENGINES 👍🏿👍🏿
now that was good...pablo's coke got delivered on time!
That'd be a lot of fucking coke!
Lol
@@PeterWalkerHP16c Enough to supply an army!
Express delivery to Halston and Studio54.
It was Pepsi's
I can just imagine them holding the brakes for all they were worth as they revved the engines up.
Legend has it that the Aircraft commander still cannot find his seat cushion.
Our brain interprets the perspective such a huge plane gives us as "how can something that big fly so slow!"
It was empty!
The published runway length is about 7400 ft. It’s not a short runway at all but close to minimum allowed for a C-5 to operate. The C-5 looks slow due to its size but be assured, the flap setting, military power (max allowed) available, weight of plane, temperature and wind, center of gravity data, calculated by the crew, made the departure possible. Gladly, no problems with the engines, otherwise, disaster. Ret USAF pilot
@@Rhaman68 I used to work in Rancho Cordova.
We were in the flight path of the C-5s. That gigantic plane always looked like it was going 5 mph.
Mather Air Force Base.
Sactown.
@@Rhaman68 Did you ever land at Siskiyou Airport?
You would have had a couple miles. California.
Standard Short Field takeoff. Hold the brakes while revving up to max power, until the brakes won't hold back anymore.
The 5 has some awesome capabilities.
My days at Travis Air Force Base when I was 20 years old always had the C-5's cranking as a backdrop.
I was stationed at Travis AFB also and I would sometimes go to the end of the runway on my motorcycle and watch the C-5’s land, (and the C-141’s and KC-135’s).
@@alexmontgomery255 Just like Maverick!
@@alexmontgomery255 When were you there and what did you do?
Travis 1994-1997, KC-10s, C-5s, tubes of pain (c-141s) and the rebuilding of the base with BRAC money. Don't miss the base, but I do miss Northern California!
@@timothyharrison8953 1986-1988
Many of these are based at Westover Air Reserve Base in Chicopee, Ma. Their longest runway is 11,600 ft. X 300 ft. The longest runway in New England.
Runway is now clear of all debris
Quite the well maintained runway. Dust was so thick it looked like a sandstorm.
What's even worse, is being a passenger up in top and not ever feeling like it's going to get off the ground! Airborne!
9.5 hrs in a scheduled 8 hr flight for me..........wow, hated it.
@@sfc334 and sitting backwards too...not even being able to see where you just came from. Holds about 75 people.
I once drove a Shelby 427 Cobra with open side pipes from Santa Barbara, to L.A., and my ears rang for 4 days afterwards.
That experience had nothing on standing next to a 5A at LAX one afternoon - without hearing protection, as it was taxiing into position to takeoff - these suckers could damn near blow your eardrums at idle, and when those engines spooled up...OMG! It isn't the overall noise that these engines made - they really weren't bad once the plane was in the air, nor were they bad after they passed you on the ground - it was the sheer scream that they made: a U-2 or a SR-71 actually made more noise overall, but it was that scream...that scream could make your head explode. A 747-200 engine at idle typically ran about 80db: these suckers had to be twice that - at idle!
I feel sorry for everybody & every window next to this runway!
Amazing how the C5's engines growl!
Those were the old Rolls Royce engines. Max thrust of 50 thousand lbs each. The new engines have a totally different sound. No growl and not as loud while making significantly more thrust while using less fuel.
@@thomasblankinship98 Cool! I remember sitting in a park bench with my friend (seven years ago), an aircraft "expert" when we watched this huge aircraft coming in for a landing at DFW. I said, "Tony, what's that?" It was dusk and we really couldn't tell. "Aw, that a 747." As it came closer (with seriously bright landing lights), I said, "No, I don't think so." We watched a little longer when the aircraft passed over the top of us almost at treetop level, its engines growling LOUD. "Man, that's a Galaxy!" Tony said, and it was seriously a spiritual experience for me, seeing that massive C-5 aircraft fly! Those engines had a sound unlike ANY other aircraft I ever saw come in for a landing.
@@thomasblankinship98 General Electric TF-39
@@thomasblankinship98 those are General Electric TF-39 engines with about 43,000 pounds of thrust on each engine. The upgraded engines are CF6. With just over 50,000 pounds on each engine.
STOL = Short take off & landing. Basic piloting: Full brakes, full power then release for the dart fwd.
Plenty of runway left over , GO FRED,GO!!!!!!!!!! AREBA!!!!!!!
I’m a USAF vet from the 1970’s and understand the ‘Fred’ reference. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂. Yup 👍 110%. F’ing Ridicules Economic Disaster. 🤣😂😁. Miss those days. 😊. Proud years for me. 😁😁
i just love the sound of those screaming TF39 engines but now since the air force changed the c5 galaxy's engines now it sounds like a sewing machine
To me the CF-6 is much more appealing. The GEnx is even more so
I listened to that noise for 4 years at Dover.
What an amazing aircraft! Those are the weirdest sounding jet engines I've ever heard though.
Yes but the aircraft has been upgraded with newer quieter more powerful engines, C-5M
Man…those engines were singin.
I calculated he was doing about 113kts just before rotation by measuring the time it took to cross a line and the length of a C5 being 75 meters.
Definitely incorrect you can simply look up aircraft rotation speeds.
They range between 160-180MPH
113 knots would be 98MPH far too slow for a C-5 to rotate.
They go much faster than 113 knots and from such an angle it looks slow it’s an optical illusion trust me. I used to see it from ground eye level daily.
@@tristanholland6445
Sorry but your math is incorrect,
1 knot = 1.15078 mph.
So 113kts is 130mph (209kmh)
And I suggest you scroll down in the comments to JumboJetPilot's and read his post.
I've been a aircraft engineer for 27 years, I assure you 113kts is fine for a lightly loaded aircraft, and he actually rotated shortly after the 113kt point.
And I can also assure you there is no optical illusion, I was using a fixed reference point and the exact known length of the aircraft (75m) to work this out.
Simply distance over time.
C-5's used to be at Stewart in Newburgh, New York. Great sound.
That's one dAmn heavy aircraft!
Look at how slow it goes down the runway!
And that Russian plane is even bigger!
Blows the mind.
I was in a guard tower watching one of these take off back in the mid 80's. I swear it looked like it was flying at 30mph. *HUGE!!*
It’s an optical illusion because they are a large object just like a train. It’s actually going about 160-180MPH
Definitely is different from a ring side head on view. Say from a taxiway sitting in a truck. Seen that view many times.
THATS POWER...!!! AMERICAN POWER...!!!
rolls royce engine,british.
GE TF39@@MrPeach18
@@MrPeach18 let's say NATO power...!!!!
@@Hunterxrt Or how bout RAW POWER PERIOD...!!! Simply the most haunting engine sounds of any aircraft i've heard.
Holy shit. I've seen c5s take off before, but don't remember them screaming like that. He must have went past TO power to omfg power. He used every inch of runway. I was always amazed because they look like they are not going fast enough to rotate.
That was impressive
They used to take off all the time when I was stationed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. You could hear it clear across post and Fort Campbell is a BIG Post. It SCREAMS BAD ASS!
They turned those engines to 11
No reason to rotate when there is still runway ahead
I GOT THE ENTIRE RUNWAY, IM GOING TO USE THE ENTIRE RUNWAY
Zero room for error there. Pucker factor 10.5
“Come on baby, lift your big ass for Sascha!!”
-only seven people will get this reference
Yes, I know the plane in the movie was an Antonov.
2012
@@JamesShedinn yep, the An-225. Largest airplane in the world.
I've actually seen it, for whatever reason it was diverted to Fairbanks International airport instead of Anchorage, in Alaska. I live in Fairbanks, so I actually got to go see it. Six massive engines, it's a beauty, and a beast.
The movie 2012 with John Cusack
I wonder if sascha had used that same line on Boris's mistress when they were having an affair?
Holy Christmas!!! I don't care if it isn't crystal clear. Man, that was one sweet video of the Galaxy!!!
He’s using that launch control to get that fast 0-60
Absolutely beautiful. Well done sirs!
0:39 For anyone who struggles to keep their grass neat, be thankful you don't have to be the ones to replant after this.
Reminds me of the conversation between the First Officer and Captain Tupolev in The Hunt for Red October.
"Captain, engineer reports 105 percent on the reactor possible, but not recommended."
"Go to 105 percent on the reactor."
Ever been on a commercial flight that they spool up the engines with the brake on and then release the brakes to take off ? I have many times at southeast Alaska airports with short runways on Alaska airlines like Sitka Ketchikan Cordova and wrangell
I actually live in AK, interior mind you but I've been down south and seen some of those large aircraft take off from short runways. It's definitely cool, but in all honesty I couldn't love down there, humidity is a killer.
Most airline flights do that at Orange County, CA (SNA). It's flat terrain, near sea-level elevation, and usually benign weather, but a 5700' runway and noise-sensitive areas all around. They get up to altitude quickly and then power down a bit for a couple minutes until they get out over the ocean.
@@mattbartley2843 yeah I almost mentioned that airport in my post also. It used to be a Great place to watch the power of the 757 on display 👍. Unfortunately most of them are going out of service at least as passenger jets
On the lineup: crew we are cleared for takeoff, takeoff power for a TRT - Standing Takeoff.
Advancing throttles NOW.
FE 15, 20, time. Brake release.
Plane starts rolling with probably 62.5 per cent flaps rather than the standard 40 per cent.
Before they increased the runway length at Norfolk NAS, we used to do that all the time, and even when they lengthened the runway, we still had to do it because of runway available.
amazing men and machine....wow!!! i have seen this in person, wicked awesome sight and sound.
@Gavin Yerg EZU, and pleez take that cheap shot back.
@@steveperry1344 big enough to play basketball inside.
Seems everything Lockheed made is cool af
Runway looked like dirt. How it got off the ground I'll never know. Bet the pilots were nervous.
the c5 Galaxy wings with proper flap and slats settings the wings generate a lot of lift at low speed
@@20083500HD C-5s were designed to take off from practically any type of runway. Dirt? not even a problem.
The C-5 was designed to take off and land on unprepared surfaces, ie battlefield conditions and during its test flights did exactly that... it can come in very steep and slow because it can reverse its inboard engines in flight, and it can vary the air pressure in its tires in flight to give the aircraft high floatation landing gear.... its an amazing plane
@@paulmurphy773 most people don't know that. The AF doesn't like it to be known . But they brag so much on the C17's ability to do what the C5 did in the late 60's. Although the honeycomb skins on the bottom really don't like gravel.
My grandfather flew them in the late 60's early 70's as a test pilot with Lockheed. I remember him telling me stories about doing low speed approaches into short runways while testing. Also flew as a training observer on missions to Israel during the Yom Kippur war. Flew a LOT of different aircraft in his time. Ended his career with 25xxx hours in something like 53 different aircraft. Always loved the C5 because he was one of the lead pilots while it was being developed. Still have an old painting of an original C5A he had hanging in his den/office!
I swear, every time I watch a C-5 take off I am positive I'm watching a Class A mishap in the making.
Whoever says "pigs can't fly" should watch this video!!
You've never seen a C-124 fly have you.
I worked on the C-5A from 1978 to 1981. Dover AFB in Delaware, and Rhein Main AB in Germany. Memories. Sigh...
One of my favorite aircraft!
The massive dust on rotate is not from the engines its from the lift produced by the wings with flaps down. Liftoff not a problem with that much ground effect to jump u up at the treeline
They had those engines howlin'. Both the Pilot & Co-Pilot must have been standing on the brakes to get a run-up like that. Love the dust cloud at the end.
TheJacksmen Only one at a time on the brakes for them to work...
It looks like it accelerates so slow which is an illusion. I've been in one that had a short runway, Inside you are facing the rear of the plane and it feels like your lap belt is holding you to the ceiling of a silo
C-5 taking off with the help of Earth's curvature...
That runway probably never looked better than after that c5 cleaning!!