British Couple Reacts to America’s MASSIVE Military Airplane that is Named After a P*rn Star
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Spent 30 years flying as a loadmaster on the C-5. Best long range heavy airlifter ever built.
I was an FE for not as many years but I agree with you.
Like Linda Lovelace, it can kneel down and take a massive load from each end .
That observation actually made me laugh out loud .
Yep I don't think they caught that 🤣, no reaction to it whatsoever...either that or they're trying their best not to get demonetized lol.
I also laughed when he flashed a picture of Linda on the screen when he was talking about kneeling again later in the video.
@@rovers141 trust me they don't know they're too young to even know anything about that.
My cousins and I make jokes about "huge loads" in a video game we play all the time together. So I caught that immediately and thought it was hilarious
These clowns missed that reference
I also loved the observation that the paratroopers went after the tanks because having a tank land on your head can ruin an otherwise good day. And I’m laughing while typing this too. 😂😂😂
I flew on the c5 several times and it was a Great ride. Also it is my favorite transport plane and I'm glad to finally see someone do a reaction video on it. I would also note that anytime the President makes a trip they typically use the c5 to transport the motorcade used by the President.
Actually, five C-5s are used for the Presidential motorcade when going overseas. 2 carry vehicles that leapfrog over each other to the next destination and the others are backups/decoys in case of maintenance issues. Same with Air Force One and the backup.
I worked on the C-5 for 5 of my 20 years in the Air Force. Still 1 of my favorite aircraft to work on. It wasn't quite the disaster he made it out to be and we didn't refer to it as Linda Lovelace. I would take his voice over info with a grain of salt.
Exactly 👍
Totally called it that. And the C-130 was puff the magic dragon. Army has nicknames for any other branch's stuff
@@WaywardVet I guess I can only speak for the base that I worked on them. We referred to the C-5 as Fat Albert and Fred.
😆 I had an uncle that gave me a tour of one when I was a kid. I remember him saying Fat Albert. That brings me back
I remember climbing the ladder to the crew deck as a kid. One of the air shows at Pease Airbase in New Hampshire back in the late 1970's had a C6 on display. A family member was part of the crew that flew it in for the show and we got a guided tour of the aircraft. That plane was gigantic, at least to a 13 year old.
3:00 There were over 100 C5 a- or C5 b made, most of which are still flying and are indeed gigantic. I live near an air base, and it is definitely a sight to behold when one is in the air.
Worked C-5's many years we called it just one thing, C-5. It can go backwards but it is done only in extreme cases. It puts to much stress on the structure. Fun fact there is a internal ladder that you can climb to get on top of the stabilizer. For a tech that does not like heights it was always fun when the flight engineer finds a problem with it. After finishing fixing write ups at night I used to love to sit in the pilots seat and put some music while waiting for the next shift. I just got to old but I do miss the work. Another fact about the Ukraine plane that was destroyed, the CEO is accused of ignoring the warning of the Russian invasion and was in fact supporting them. That's why it was not flown out earlier, he has a court appearance soon.
I was stationed at Kelly AFB, TX in 1989 as security police officer. C-5's are frigging massive, we used to hang basketball hoops in them and play basketball for moral in the wee hours of the night while they were getting serviced at Kelly AFB. They were a great aircraft, but eventually deemed too expensive for use. I will never forget standing by a tire one night I'm 5'6", and was less than half of the height of a tire. Smaller than the USSR Antonov (God rest her sole).
The tires are less than 4’ high
Hi! I live by the old Kelly AFB in San Antonio. I had a lot of relatives that worked there. I know some people who now work in Lackland AFB. So sad to see Kelly AFB closed in Military City, USA.
I am currently a C-5M mechanic stationed in south east Asia and the tires for a C-5 are not anything impressive. The biggest tires in the air force are actually on the significantly smaller C-130
When I was a kid myself and family went to an air show and I actually walked through one of these, they're crazy big, and there's currently 52 of them still in operation by the military
The US Air Force still uses the C5 plane.
Yep. It has around 52 in it’s inventory
I used to work on the C-5 in the 1980s. It was an amazing aircraft. I even got to fly on one during refueling training while we tested other systems. We did not have cargo like we normally would and running around the mostly empty cargo bay all by myself was incredible. Felt like we could have played a football game in there. I am glad I got a chance to be a part of that program.
Early in my Engineering career, I worked on digitizing some of the parts for the C-5 elevators (the control surfaces on the horizontal stabilizer in the tail). I was told each one of those was about the size of a 737 wing. Big Plane.
Also, regarding the 747 with the Space Shuttle aboard, I remember seeing those when I was a kid. They would often land in El Paso when they were making cross country trips. He mentions the tail of the 747, but the one that carries the shuttle was a totally different tail configuration from a normal 747.... so there's that.
I worked on the upgrade from C-5B to C-5M. She is still going strong.
My father was stationed at Dover Air Force Base when the C-5 first came there. I remember they had to reinforce the runways to handle the weight and build new hangers to accommodate the plane.
Having served active duty in the US Air Force for 26 years, I have seen a myriad of different airframes coming in or taking off I never failed to stop and look in amazement at a C-5 seeming to just hang in the air because it was so large.
This plane is still used. I've even driven trucks into them in preparation for over seas deployment. In fact I parked 3 semi trailers into each C-5 that left for deployment from Ft Benning over a 3 day period several years ago.
Spent 2 years as an air terminal operations officer at Yokota AB. Was on and off these planes every day. Most memorable load was a propeller shaft for the USS Midway. As I recall, it weighed over 70,000 pounds. 😮 Fun fact, it burned 2,000 pounds of fuel in the time between the start of the takeoff roll and the moment the wheels came off the ground.
I worked on the C-5 in the 1980's. I went to the Aleutian Islands to work on the team that recovered a C-5 that had an unfortunate landing accident. If you go thru the round door that is the back of the troop compartment you can climb the ladder that is inside the tail. There is a door up top that you can go thru and go up top. You are way way up in the air at that point, so not for the weak of heart. It is a truly massive aircraft.
Yes the plane is still used. They worked out all the kinks. It recently received a major upgrade and is now the C5m super galaxy. Spent many summers at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware where they still fly them today.
You are correct a small vehicle moves the plane back from the loading gate. The C5A as so big the wings passed over the flight towers at some air port landing strips.
Normally a push back tractor is used, but most commercial aircraft have reverse thrusters and in rare cases will be used them to pull back from the gate, usually if the airport does not have a weigh rated push back tractor for that aircraft. I saw this in practice when I flew from Hassi Musad Algeria.
"Can take HUGE LOADS from both ends". Now THAT is hilarious double entendres.
I Did all the communications systems on that aircraft...60th AMS Travis AFB. One of our systems (CDIPR) *the black box was on the highest point on the plane; The horizontal Stabilizer you see those airmen standing on, in the thumbnail.. A very well built aircraft.
That's how they transported the shuttles from The landing sites to the launch pads which is coast to coast on top of a Boeing
6:29 that wasn’t a reverse thrust activation. That was a weight shift in cargo of a cargo 747
The C-5 is still in use and does carry a massive amount of cargo
The space shuttles would touch down in California, and needed to be flown back to Florida. Just too big to be put on a truck or train.
Also, I'd argue the coolest thing about our cargo planes is that rail system that pallets slide in and out on. It's what allows us to drop vehicles out the back, and you can roll out pallets of supplies and roll on pallets of seats in minutes, going from cargo to passenger configuration and back again. Essentially, you can bolt anything to a pallet. You can put together a field hospital configuration on the ground, and again, have it rolled on in minutes.
It's from Travis Air Force Base & yes it's still in use
The C5A is still operating ....one base is really close to me ..Westover Air Base in Chicopee Massachusettts. Their flight path tales them right over my abode in the adjacent community. They come really low and no matter how many times i've seen it it atill amazes me that is doesnt drop out of the sky. When they had airshows at Westover field, they would set up a C%A Galaxy with both the rear and front cargo dors open and that was how you' enter that air show. Really cool.
The C5 is still in service as the backbone of the USAF heavy airlift force. It has since been modernized and is now known as te C5M.
I have been to Airshows where they brought in a C-5, opened it up to let people walk through. It is HUGE.
I grew up in the Houston area. I got to meet Ronald McNair when he visited my school, where his wife was a teacher. I witnessed the shuttles riding piggyback a number of times.
Travis is the Air Force Base that aircraft is stationed out of, one close by to me! It’s the Air Mobility Wing, basically the part of the Air Force meant to keep supplies and troops and such moving and able to reach anywhere needed. It included tanker aircraft for in flight refueling as well as cargo aircraft.
Leaving the gate area, commercial airlines are pushed by a person driving a tug that is attached to the from landing gear. They do not use reverse thrusters at the gates.
They probably also dont use backward facing seats on commercial flights due to motion sickness. Many ppl get motion sickness when moving backward.
As an Army customer of USAF cargo planes, the C5 is a great aircraft.
U.S. military cargo planes (in general) have always amazed me. When I was undergoing "night firing" training down at Fort Dix (in New Jersey) back in 1987, huge C-141 Starlifters (retired in 2006) would be coming in for landings at McGuire Air Force Base right across the roadway. These huge jets would come in dead silent just above the treetops. I was amazed that a jet that huge, and that close above our heads, never made a sound while landing.😮 I always remembered that.👍
Your best chance to actually see and visit a C-5M is during many of the RAF airshows that occur in UK every year. I recommend RAF Fairford show RIAT.
The Boeing was used to transport the space shuttle when the shuttle landed at one of the alternative landing sites instead of landing in Florida. There were landing sites in Texas and New Mexico (I think) if the weather was bad in Florida. The shuttle is now retired.
The space shuttle rides on a 747 to take it form its post-mission landing site back to Cape Canaveral.
For launch prep, the shuttle would be mounted on its main and secondary booster rockets on a specially made flatbed, which would then travel on tracks at the blistering speed of 5 miles per hour (slower than most humans casual walking speed). It would launch like any other rocket, ditch its boosters on the way up, complete its mission, and then come back down flying like any other winged aircraft (with the notable exception that it's falling gracefully instead of flying). It would land at a pre-selected military airfield where it would eventually be loaded onto a 747 to be carried back to CC.
I have worked with the C-5 numerous times and never heard these names, but understand the names. And yes the C-5 was replaced by the C-17
I've seen a few of these in person just by chance. They're massive
Commercial aircraft theoretically can use reverse thrusters to go in reverse on the ground but due to the tight maneuvering space of an airport and potential for FOD (foreign objects and debris) to be sucked up and damage the turbines it is prohibited by the carriers. Also, without having an Airman to guide you around from the back ensuring everything is clear it's safer and faster to use a tug (a low riding vehicle that has high torque and heavy weight to maintain traction) to get that bird out of her nest.
I flew on a C-5 from Qatar to Spain and then from Spain to New York. When it landed in Qatar it needed repairs, when we landed in Spain it need some more repairs, and when we landed in New York it was grounded several days for even more repairs. But, it was a comfortable flight.
reverse thrust is usually limited use due to economics and ground conditions
I flew on the C-5 when it was brand new to Saudi Arabia for desert storm except for the crew wearing military uniforms. It felt just like a civilian airliner.
the "Travis" is for its home station which is Travis Air Force Base in Northern California. 40 years ago I was fortunate as a young civilian photojournalist to be invited to Travis AFB to tour inside of one of these beasts and photograph it. These air ships are MASSIVE.
We put an AVLB(armored bridge launcher, 63 facetime bridge) on a C5
The c5 delivered a squadron of f5E tiger II aircraft to RAF Alconbury in the late 70's
Just an FYI a C5 can carry 2 M1 Abrams tanks. The C17 can carry 1 M1 Abrams plus the crew and a fuel truck. They are amazing to see fly - and intimidating as hell.
Names on the tail of the plane is where the plane is based at like Travis that means that plane is based in Travis Air Force Base
12:02 it’s heavily modified. I highly doubt a stock 747 could do it😂
The plane can kneel and take a load from either end, hence Linda Lovelace.
Too funny
Watched those take off from my grandparents house near Killeen, outside of Fort Hood. Beautiful beast
11:42 there's a meme with that picture saying something like "if they can transport the space shuttle I'm calling bullshit on overweight luggage fees" lol
yes its still used, i have flown on a c5 galaxy, awesome plane and very cool sitting backwars inside, its a huge plane!!
C-5 is definitely still in service....my husband was a crew chief for the first 10 years he was in the Air Force. Then he switched to B-52s
I was with Piedmont Airlines in Charleston SC back in the mid-80s. We used to see a C-5 at least twice a week. Those jets always looked like they were going so slow during landing/takeoff rolls because of the aircraft size. Never heard of it called FRED before but I definitely heard it called Linda Lovelace. We all simply called it The Big Pickle, or just Pickle.
I remember being a kid heading to the Ocean, passing by Dover Airforce Base in Delaware and looking at the C-5's in disbelief.
The C-5 is still in service in upgraded versions.
If you ever get near Delaware Dover Air force base has the military transport command museum that has a C5 to walk thru. Plus you can see them taking off from the base.
It’s still in use. I’m flying on one tomorrow in Japan.
Since you were surprised by the Boeing 747 that carried the Space Shuttle, I suggest you react to a video about the plane that was built in the 1980s to transport the Soviet space shuttle. Called the Antonov An-225 "Mriya," it was the largest plane in the world, with a cargo capacity approximately double that of the C-5 Galaxy. After the end of the Soviet Union, it was contracted around the world to airlift massive cargoes. The only plane was destroyed last year in the fighting in Ukraine. It has been reported that work is being done to complete an unfinished second plane. The RUclips channel "Megaprojects" has a 15-minute video about this plane (and a second, shorter one about its destruction). The An-225 was so enormous it really did seem miraculous that it could fly.
there are many videos about air refueling. Luckily, I got te chance to go on a KC-135 and watch an air refueling right from the back. Awesome experience.
These behemoths are still flying. A couple of years ago one flew over at about 2000 ft AGL as I was driving. It was so huge, it at first seemed to hang motionless.
Yes, the C5A is still in use. I see one (nearly) every year at the air show in Cleveland.
I’ve seen a C-5 close up when one was in static display at a local air show….it’s freakin’ massive! The cockpit windshield is 3 stories high!
It's massive. I was in one at an airshow. Also saw one land. Amazing!
I saw a C-5a at an air show at Dulles International Airport near Washington DC back in 1969 when they were brand new and I was about 10 years old. Very impressive but we didn’t get to go inside.
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Related video idea "Endeavors homecoming" I live in California and when we still launched shuttles sometimes shuttles would land at Edwards Air Force Base California if conditions were not perfect in Florida. Then would be piggy backed back to Florida. After the shuttle problem ended southern California was given the endeavor shuttle. They flew it low over the county so we could see it the. Drove it though los Angeles moving trees, and taking down fences on the way.
My pops was a load master on the c141 and then transfer over to the c17 station down in charleston afb i used to live there till a few yrs ago
When a base with C-5s are open for an air show they'll let you tour them.
The first C5 I saw I mistook for a building on the other side of the hangar.
18" of snow? What about the 3+ feet in my back yard right now? lol!
I live near Travis AFB in California. They fly over my house probably once an hour. Maybe less since the end of the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan.
I lived in Vacaville when I served at travis.. In the early 80's...They're so damn loud...:)
@IT? That's where I live. I noticed a sharp downturn the last year. When ever activity picks up, yiu know something is going down. Panama, Granada, etc. Those all need major logistics & air refueling. The C5 & KC 135 air refueling are omnipresent. I hear one now.
@@sonnystaton I lived on Colonial Circle, It was such a nice area, for a philly dude to live in...Close to Lake Berryessa, Many of my neighbors had fruit trees. Biggest lemons I ever saw in my life...And, Oh man, Naval oranges in October, Nice and cold in the morning...I took my wife into the area in the 90's...I couldn't even find my house...It's changed A LOT! Is the Nut Tree still a thing?
@IT? They completely tore down the old Nutt Tree in the 90s, except the train. Now it's the Nut tree shopping plaza with a Best Buy, Ulta, NortramRack, lots of restaurants etc. We used to live on the other side of Alamo from where you were at, we moved there in 95 & then here in Browns Valley behind the Nut Tree in 2018. We have Apples, Peaches, lemon & cherry. But only the Peaches & lemons have produced so far.
@@sonnystaton :)...It was a quaint little town when I was there in the 80's...I've done a couple google earths to visit the area...It's totally different from what I remember it as.
It was the first time I lived in a single home...Well, good health and happiness to you and yours...
Maybe it's just because I didn't sleep well last night, but I was confused as to why they call it Linda until he said something about taking massive loads from both ends 🤣. But also, I've flown in one before and spent a lot of time around cargo aircraft, I never once heard anyone call it these names. It definitely sounds like marine humour though, I wouldn't be surprised if a marine was to first to call it Linda lol
I used to have a FRED and a Linda Lovelace T-shirt.
We wore them under our flight suits .
The Linda Lovelace Reference was also. Because it swallowed everything
I flew to Saudia Arabia on a C5 even got to go up to the pilot's deck. Really a big plane.
6:25 that clip there was a cargo plane that had 3 crewmen on board where the cargo came loose and they tried to save it but it crashed unfortunately
Yes the C-5 is still in operation
From 94-99' while serving in the army....got to catch a few rides around to different areas of the globe in that thing....along with the c-130 , c-17 and the 141 also....i think the 141 was replaced by the 17..?? But yeah tat plane is frigin awsome.
The US Air Force has some planes that are the longest serving airplanes in the US military which are the B-52s. All the B-52's that are currently used were built in the 50s and 60s. The last B-52 rolled off the assembly line in October of 1962. All the C-130 that were built then are all gone unlike the B-52's.
Yes, to answer your question airplanes are “pushed” from an airport gate that’s connected to the wheels that literally pushes you out and they disconnect n then plane basically turns around n about and ✈️ go 👋 👋 ✌️
It is fully expected to remain in service to at least 2040...it entered service in the 1970's
"It can kneel down and take a massive load from each end" 😆🤣
People like to sit facing forward because they want to see where they're going and not where they've been lol
Used to fuel those up-USAF POL
Once in a while the Air Force flies in and out of an airport near my house using this plane's little brother (C-17 Globemaster) to do short runway training
When I was younger growing up as air force dependent I never hear it called anything but Galaxy.
I had a chance to ride on one of these while in the military. They had also landed a smaller jet and I got in the line to board the C141. I took one look at the size of this aircraft, and being a nervous flyer, said, "No way."
I worked at the Lockheed plant in GA where the C-5B was made, I worked on the line, specifically, the ferring ,near the tail! Never heard some of these terms either...?😮
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Lmao. I call our trucking depot Linda Lovelace for the same reason. It's a crossdock, so it can literally take loads from both sides of the building. The old guys in the office laugh their butts off at that reference.
The C-5 has a whole other airplane sitting on top of it's rear stabilizer.
There are 52 C5s still in Service
they hold an air show in tampa at mcdill air force base every year thats when they open the gates to the public it might be the blue angels or the air force thunder chickens but you can walk around and tour these huge planes
I was in the USAF, I got to walk around in a C-5 parked on ground during an airshow at our base. You should look for a video on the C-141. I rode one of those across the Atlantic once (quite uncomfortably), side facing jump seats with cargo a few inches away for 14 hours. But those things can land with almost no runway. C-5s, as far as I know are still actively used. I also got a ride in a KC-135 airiel refueler over Iraq during Operation Desert Shield/ Desert Storm- pretty amazing watching F-16s and EF-111s come in and hook up...
C5 was retired, it's C5 Mikes now. C5s are impressive as hell when they're 500 ft AGL, had it happen dozens if not hundreds of times at my house.
Do you mean "141"? Or a C-130?
@@Ozarks420 C-141 Globemaster or was it startlifter or both? I was also thinking about my short uncomfortable ride on a C-130 in Kuwait, but my stories go on and on. But I think that's where I combined my numbers. (Edit: see my stories don't end...) My cousin was a C-130 (and later KC-135) pilot (certified to drop tanks @ 9') - who later became wing commander at Eilson AFB for a while.
I remember a takeoff in my airplane from an airport in Schenectady, NY. I taxied up to the runway, and there was a C-5A directly opposite me, ready to take off as well (I felt like a gnat by comparison). He had to wait; the controller let my tiny plane go first. If I had tried to take off right after the C-5A, his wake turbulence could have flipped me right over. I thought of saying, "tell the C-5A pilots to watch out for my wake turbulence", over radio, but I chickened out.
That aircraft is call the C-5 galaxy
The C5 for over a decade was the largest plane in the world. It can carry 32 Greyhound buses. It can carry 2 M1A2 tanks. The C5 is very much still in use.
From the ground to the top of the tail is 7 stories high. You have to wear a safety harness to work on the tail. Yes I fell off the tail. Back in the day it carried 2 crews of 8.
32 buses? 36 463L aircraft pallets 88"x108". 88" times 18 (per side) = 132 ft. Average bus is 40 ft. Sir, I think your math is off.
@@joelkrause388 Nope. I was part of a C5 crew. I know what we put in there. Keep in mind I’m talking about the 70s
Fun Fact: Wright Brother's first flight: 120 feet (36.5 meters).... Galaxy C5M: 247 feet 10 inches (75.3 meters)
My guess for the sealift of tanks, in 1973, minimum 14 days. In 1965 I went by ship from Bremerhaven to NY NY. I think it was about 7 days.
I have been inside a C-5 but can't remember ever flying in one