Totally cool to see the gear deploy, and then swivel into position for landing. It must have been a challenge to secure the camera to the aircraft. It did it's job and gave us a great view.
You don't realize how fast that sucker is moving until you see the ground coming up! That has got to be one of the most impressive sights I've seen! And nothing beats the sound of the C-5's engines! Boy do I love that sound!
schrap72 I agree it is truly impressive and I remember them floating into the air out of Kadena, but nothing compared to the SR-71 Habu taking off in full afterburner.
landing was 10/10. i thought he was gonna come up landing past the piano keys and hard touch down but the flare at the end was perfect. probably couldnt even feel it from inside the cockpit!
Amazing view! Worked C-5's at Travis for ten years, went overseas, and then back to Travis and this time worked on C-141's till they went away. Lived on base and it's amazing what you learn to tune out (planes taking off and landing, engine runs for maintenance, etc,,,) my folks came down to visit and asked how we could sleep with all that noise, I asked back "what noise"?
@@747heavyboeing3 Sorry missed your reply. I would think it had a better MC rate than the C-5A & B's but not positive. After working on the C-5, it was just easier to work on in my opinion.
One of the more impressive videos I've seen. Really get a sense of the speed when you see the airflow buffeting the landing gear bay doors. Felt like I was riding under the plane. Love those engine sounds.
Hey Steven, that's an awesome perspective! May I use a part of this video in one of my next uploads? Of course with giving credit to you in the video and in the description. Keep it up, cheers!
That was really funny. At first I thought: Where is he going? The runway is to the left. Is he going to make a REALLY tight turn to final? Then it was: Oh wait, he can just land on the runway in front of him.
When I was serving in Army aviation during the Vietnam War, I did a "tour" in Pleiku & Nha Trang from Aug68 to Aug69, then I finished my enlistment at the Crissy Army Airfield at the Presidio of San Francisco (near the Golden Gate Bridge). We had many flight assignments, but the worst was to haul injured soldiers coming home for the war, in various aircraft, but mostly the C-141s and later in C-5s. We'd fly our helicopters to Travis Airbase, the injured would be transferred to our aircraft and we'd fly them to Letterman Army Hospital, a topnotch hospital at the Presidio (Spanish word for "fort"). I was at the Presidio from Sep69 to Jan71. Those were difficult days, but somehow we survived and now we continue to move on.
Back in about 1975-6, one of the C-5A's from Travis was at Altus doing touch and goes, on the closed side of the base. The gear came down, didn't turn forward, gave the green lights or the crew didn't notice, and made the world's shortest landing, smoked all the tires, caught fire and burned to the ground before the fire crews arrived. Everyone got off, but a total write off of the aircraft.
always amazed me how planes designed and built in the 50's and 60's are still in service to this day and keep up with operational demands. C 130's, C5's, B52's platforms have done an amazing job with being able to be slightly up dated over time to continue service. Still amazes that the SR71 was first thought up and put to paper in the late 50's.
The SR-71 will always be my favorite plane overall. I am retired Air Force. These are my favorites by type (not that anyone cares, but I will list them anyway LoL). Attack: A-10 Bomber: B-1B Cargo: C-17 (C-5 for sound) Fighter: F-16 (F-22 a close 2nd) Tanker: KC-10 Spy: SR-71 Badass Bonus: C-130 Spectre Gunship! Just looking at the list is a whole can of badassery!
This is NOT the video of the incident aircraft, the nose gear is normal here. It is rare to see any plane land and stay this close to the runway centerline; outstanding job!
Not sure what “incident” you’re referring to. And it wasn’t unusual for our pilots to be on centerline when landing... years and years of practice doing touch-and-gos helps.
That looks like Travis Air Force Base im about 8 minutes from there. Hear them all the time they also have the KC 135 refueler and the C17s. I remember the days of the C5 Galaxy it was deafening to hear and a huge aircraft.
For 9 years I was a Pneumatic/Hydraulic Specialist on Dover AFB's C-5 A's & B's. So many maintenance personnel to keep these flying! A lot of hard work. But very rewarding to learn, troubleshoot and work on the systems and all the hundreds of hydraulic and pneumatic components to keep it flying. From the "T" tail to nose cone "Visor" - all the hydraulics that are involved is crazy but necessary. This film is impressive showing the landing gear sequence, what great engineering went into designing the main landing gear to unfold the "bogies" and rotate them into position for landing. Too bad you weren't able to show the flight crew dialing in "cross wind" on the gears when landing, but I believe that function was later deleted.
I started flying on Fred in the mid-90s... the crosswind gear function was removed before my time. Sure would have been cool to see in operation though.
Thumbs up for you bastard. Great view of an awesome size military transport. Years ago while I stood under the wing of a C-5 Galaxy at an airshow, an officer told me about a guy that went insane while designing the hydraulic system.
Nice video of a great plane... But I found it disturbing that after the landing gears went down the forward set of doors apparently weren't locked properly after closing and continued to vibrate not being sealed properly tight to the belly surface... I would suggest to inspect this aircraft and the mechanics of the landing gear bays, just to avoid an accident some day.
I was stationed at Travis AFB seven years. Got 18 Galaxy flights across the Pacific, across the Atlantic, and across the USA. One of the best rides there is, especially the cross-country flight from Dover when I was on the flight deck. The worst one was Savannah - Travis with gear down...that was a particularly long flight when you're at reduced speed.
They could have made the C5's landing gear both stronger and lighter, with the same number of wheels. Double up the 777's rear struts (4x6), and two front struts. (The front double steering struts would need a linkage, possible hydraulic with electronic controls.)
Авто/Мото
We don't have enough seats for everyone, so... you, private, we have a special place for you. You're the cameraman for a special video.
Imagine not having enough seats in a C-5
Lmao🤣🤣
Nonsense
“5 by 5, I’m on the pylon!”
Is it still keelhauling if it's in an airplane? :P
The scream of those engines is a sound you don’t easily forget once you hear it for the first time.
Respect to the cameraman for holding on so we can enjoy this wonderful video.
Totally cool to see the gear deploy, and then swivel into position for landing. It must have been a challenge to secure the camera to the aircraft. It did it's job and gave us a great view.
Ray Sills atolladero
Juan Buyo hope someone replies to me in 2 years!
Boeing 737 how about 1 day?
Boeing 737 1 week?
Flextape did it's job
You don't realize how fast that sucker is moving until you see the ground coming up! That has got to be one of the most impressive sights I've seen! And nothing beats the sound of the C-5's engines! Boy do I love that sound!
schrap72 most of them have been re engined so you won't be hearing it much longer.
Sad
schrap72 I agree it is truly impressive and I remember them floating into the air out of Kadena, but nothing compared to the SR-71 Habu taking off in full afterburner.
All the C5s are officially C5Ms now and have all been re-engined. :-(
Thicconov is bigger and better
That was a nice butter landing
What is a 'butter' landing?
@@ayyarmia9186 a low vertical speed makes a smooth landing
Gwo Gaming RIGHT
Z Lachance smooth
Billy Judd it’s a landing that’s very smooth
landing was 10/10. i thought he was gonna come up landing past the piano keys and hard touch down but the flare at the end was perfect. probably couldnt even feel it from inside the cockpit!
Flew over my office almost everyday when I was stationed at Rhine Ordnance Barrack, Kaiserslautern. Beautiful plane. Loved Ramstein Air force Base.
Good ol K-Town
One of the nicest landings I've ever seen. Great pilot.
dooooood 100%
Amazing view! Worked C-5's at Travis for ten years, went overseas, and then back to Travis and this time worked on C-141's till they went away. Lived on base and it's amazing what you learn to tune out (planes taking off and landing, engine runs for maintenance, etc,,,) my folks came down to visit and asked how we could sleep with all that noise, I asked back "what noise"?
141s were great looking birds as well. I only saw a few fly in person. Did they require more maintenance per hour compared to C5s?
@@747heavyboeing3 Sorry missed your reply. I would think it had a better MC rate than the C-5A & B's but not positive. After working on the C-5, it was just easier to work on in my opinion.
One of the more impressive videos I've seen. Really get a sense of the speed when you see the airflow buffeting the landing gear bay doors. Felt like I was riding under the plane. Love those engine sounds.
TF39 engines.
Reengined C 5s today sound like an airliner . Boring compared to TF39 powered C5a
Hey Steven, that's an awesome perspective! May I use a part of this video in one of my next uploads? Of course with giving credit to you in the video and in the description. Keep it up, cheers!
I hope you get permission
I hope you get permission too!!!
Even I hope
😭😭😭
Hiiii
This is the best century to be alive. Technology is really amazing
That was really funny. At first I thought: Where is he going? The runway is to the left. Is he going to make a REALLY tight turn to final? Then it was: Oh wait, he can just land on the runway in front of him.
Same.
Your not the only one to think that.
I did too
"Where's this guy going ? He's on the taxiway" :-)
I did too lol
Now that was one smooth as silk landing! Great job.
Enjoyed the heck out of it. Thanks for posting, Mr. Edmundson.
The C-5 has the best landing gear extension/retraction, and also the best engine roar
Man...that is just so freaking cool!!!!!!!!!! The view..the sound of those engines...everything about this clip is awesome!!!!
3.15 to 3.50
What a perfect alignment to the RWY.
The pilots be appreciated.
Now if they could bluetooth the underside video to the pilots they could see if those wheels actually turn forward.
The smoothest landing ever😮
Not really.
Ive seen smoother from ryanair
Almost got arrested for watching it, smooth ryanair landings are illegal
Bacot anjing
That whole evolution was the best landing vid ever!
Without the landing gear deployed it reminds me a lot of the Independence Day ship that set New York on fire.
Ha!! 😂
Perfect Butter touchdown!! Really good Pilot at work!!
When I was serving in Army aviation during the Vietnam War, I did a "tour" in Pleiku & Nha Trang from Aug68 to Aug69, then I finished my enlistment at the Crissy Army Airfield at the Presidio of San Francisco (near the Golden Gate Bridge). We had many flight assignments, but the worst was to haul injured soldiers coming home for the war, in various aircraft, but mostly the C-141s and later in C-5s. We'd fly our helicopters to Travis Airbase, the injured would be transferred to our aircraft and we'd fly them to Letterman Army Hospital, a topnotch hospital at the Presidio (Spanish word for "fort"). I was at the Presidio from Sep69 to Jan71. Those were difficult days, but somehow we survived and now we continue to move on.
Flew across the creek in. One of these bad boys! When I was in the service. Smooth flight! Awesome power! Great landing! 👍👏
Perfect camera position..the view of the landing was spectacular...SURREAL!!!!😉..GREAT VIDEO!!!CONGRATULATIONS!!👏🏼👏🏼
Love the C-5, a thing of beauty to watch it fly!
That ties for the best C-5 video I've ever seen! Amazing video!
That was my job for about a decade. C-5 landing gear. Overhaul and rigging. Way cool perspective. Thanks!
Back in about 1975-6, one of the C-5A's from Travis was at Altus doing touch and goes, on the closed side of the base. The gear came down, didn't turn forward, gave the green lights or the crew didn't notice, and made the world's shortest landing, smoked all the tires, caught fire and burned to the ground before the fire crews arrived. Everyone got off, but a total write off of the aircraft.
Great video I love the view of the landing and the good camera quality
always amazed me how planes designed and built in the 50's and 60's are still in service to this day and keep up with operational demands. C 130's, C5's, B52's platforms have done an amazing job with being able to be slightly up dated over time to continue service. Still amazes that the SR71 was first thought up and put to paper in the late 50's.
The SR-71 will always be my favorite plane overall. I am retired Air Force. These are my favorites by type (not that anyone cares, but I will list them anyway LoL).
Attack: A-10
Bomber: B-1B
Cargo: C-17 (C-5 for sound)
Fighter: F-16 (F-22 a close 2nd)
Tanker: KC-10
Spy: SR-71
Badass Bonus: C-130 Spectre Gunship!
Just looking at the list is a whole can of badassery!
The pilot absolutely buttered that landing! Smooth as a freshly waxed puanani!
U idiot lol
What a vid, that was amazing!
Incredible. Landing was one of smoothest I've seen!
I agree- this was a truly amazing video. Captured the essence of a marvelous final approach from such a unique camera angle!
Just like butter.
It's clearly not a butter, but smooth tho
thank you for that. best ive seen! Safe flying you all!!
Man, you must have got cold strapped under that aeroplane holding a camera! Seriously, great video, excellent editing.
If this is a joke, r/woosh me but he used a stick on camera.
@@novemberdelta1282 congrats responding to a 5 year old comment
@@Scazoid Is there anything wrong with that? I don't see any wrong doing on replying to an old comment.
@@novemberdelta1282 theyll probably never return or dead
@@Scazoid Well of course not dead!
Daamn; that whistle sounds loud even from under the plane. I can't imagine how it is right next to it
This is NOT the video of the incident aircraft, the nose gear is normal here. It is rare to see any plane land and stay this close to the runway centerline; outstanding job!
Not sure what “incident” you’re referring to. And it wasn’t unusual for our pilots to be on centerline when landing... years and years of practice doing touch-and-gos helps.
Wow, talk about greasing it! Perfect smooth touch down. Impressive 👌
So many trips on these. Thanks Air Force for the rides.
Nicely done Capt. Right on the centerline and SMOOTH!
Love this view and roar of the engines
Wow -how perfect was that ! -thank you Steven -
Stunning views, amazing!
Call me a geek, but if I could restart my career I would be an undercarriage engineer, I find the workmanship amazing.
Your a geek
@ALAN CHOW HO HAN Moe ..... im in kIndaR gArTen idk how to spwlll
I never saw that camera view before. Very nice.
That looks like Travis Air Force Base im about 8 minutes from there. Hear them all the time they also have the KC 135 refueler and the C17s. I remember the days of the C5 Galaxy it was deafening to hear and a huge aircraft.
+Karl Dunn KC-10 is at Travis, not the 135.
I lived at travis for 3 years
I spend more time looking at USAF airplanes flying around when I go to Fairfield Pick-N-Pull auto junk yard than I do pulling my parts.
Correct, that is Travis with the two offset parallel runways,
yep def Travis AFB upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Travis_AFB_CA_-_12_June_1993.jpg
Awesome to see those KC-10s on the 200 ramp to the right! Oh, and great landing, too... ;-)
For 9 years I was a Pneumatic/Hydraulic Specialist on Dover AFB's C-5 A's & B's. So many maintenance personnel to keep these flying! A lot of hard work. But very rewarding to learn, troubleshoot and work on the systems and all the hundreds of hydraulic and pneumatic components to keep it flying. From the "T" tail to nose cone "Visor" - all the hydraulics that are involved is crazy but necessary. This film is impressive showing the landing gear sequence, what great engineering went into designing the main landing gear to unfold the "bogies" and rotate them into position for landing. Too bad you weren't able to show the flight crew dialing in "cross wind" on the gears when landing, but I believe that function was later deleted.
I started flying on Fred in the mid-90s... the crosswind gear function was removed before my time. Sure would have been cool to see in operation though.
Thumbs up for you bastard. Great view of an awesome size military transport. Years ago while I stood under the wing of a C-5 Galaxy at an airshow, an officer told me about a guy that went insane while designing the hydraulic system.
6 years later and still my favorite landing clip on RUclips
Pretty cool bird! I had the pleasure ,or should I say displeasure, of flying in one of these from Okinawa to Iraq. Longest week of my life!!!!
That was brilliant!
Awesome Video Steven!
Awesome landing! Smooth and on the centerline!
i call it a butter landing
All planes without crosswind goes aligned with the centerline so you never need t9 add “on the centerline”
Fantastic view of a landing.
Now I understand why the speed limit is so low to deploy the landing gear. These doors were just about to rip right off!
She's a screamer! Beautifully done
Awesome footage 👏
Good video good aircraft good flight deck....and all crew
Great footage and great landing right on the runway centerline .
Wow! What a good view!!!
Ha! at 1:57, right under the right bogie, my old residence. (I lived at the old Nike Missile site on Hay Rd. for about 4 years.)
Vacaville, CA?
@@jabobthegod Yes sir
@@orangecayman520 bridge?
You are lucky to see that video.
Scott Leitch
Holy fuck 6 years ago
Wow....unbelivable....thank you so much🌷🌷🌷🌷👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️
türk olduğun belli
7 years and still a great video
Couple of times it got so quiet thought the plane was gliding. Cool video!!
props to the camera man for strapping himself to the bottom of the plane :D
Now that was a sight to be seen👀
thank you for not adding background music👌
Nice video, thanks :)
I miss the old TF39s. 😢. Love the video!
Nice video of a great plane... But I found it disturbing that after the landing gears went down the forward set of doors
apparently weren't locked properly after closing and continued to vibrate not being sealed properly tight to the belly surface...
I would suggest to inspect this aircraft and the mechanics of the landing gear bays, just to avoid an accident some day.
So awesome,gear change incredible.
the butter I always wanted
That was so freaking awesome,watching from underneath the C5-A!
when this was taken it was probably a C model
Nice view from down under...the plane.
Incredible wheel level videography 💪👍😲
The landing gear of the C-5 is an engineering masterpiece!
Absolutely Awesome!!!
How'd you get the camera attached there? Crawled underneath?
👏👏👏🔥. from Bangalore India 🇮🇳
This video is fantastic!!
Huskybell García
Hello how arr you
...i love the sounds of the engines correcting on finals
That's a cool shot of a landing
Wow such wonderful mechanics in those gears
I was stationed at Travis AFB seven years. Got 18 Galaxy flights across the Pacific, across the Atlantic, and across the USA. One of the best rides there is, especially the cross-country flight from Dover when I was on the flight deck. The worst one was Savannah - Travis with gear down...that was a particularly long flight when you're at reduced speed.
Cheers from Fairfield
yes it is an active runway. it was closed for some time to build an assault strip for that other airplane, but they are both open now.
Good idea FRED!
Does anyone know if the C5s ever have issues with landing gear that fail to pivot? And are there other planes with that kind of landing gear?
Wickedly smooth landing
always gives u a warm and fuzzy when your mlg doors shake like that
Great camera angle!!!
Da hora demais. Magnífico mundo da Aviação...
Nice video
Flew so many security mission on these things. Love those reverse thrusters. 10 years at Travis AFB was enough to ruin my hearing.
And mine
couldn’t hear you guys : uhmm , what was that again ?
Perfect landing
They could have made the C5's landing gear both stronger and lighter, with the same number of wheels.
Double up the 777's rear struts (4x6), and two front struts. (The front double steering struts would need a linkage, possible hydraulic with electronic controls.)
Thats what we call a clean jetblue landing