At a roll-out ceremony May 16 at Lockheed Martin's plant in Marietta, Ga., the Air Force accepted delivery of the first C-5M Galaxy, the first of 111 that will undergo modernization at the facility, extending the fleet's life by more than 25 years.
Two more photos on the linked page - one inside and one more outside - plus a brief video (click on links RH side "view all images" and "C-5M Rollout").
The CF-6 looks pretty good on the C-5 IMO, and I have no doubt the upgrades will increase FRED's reliability.
Lumberton From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 4708 posts, RR: 21 Reply 4, posted (7 years 3 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 7751 times:
What's the "red thing" on the nose?
"When all is said and done, more will be said than done".
Galaxy5007 From United States of America, joined Sep 2005, 586 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (7 years 3 weeks 5 days 4 hours ago) and read 7650 times:
Its not permanant. It is installed for flight testing only. They have to do it with the probe(which is orange by the way) so they can calibrate all the computers upstairs and monitor everything that is happening in flight testing. As said already, it was on the original C-5s, only in black. The C-17 and 141 had it as well in flight testing. Once flight testing is done, they'll remove it and put a traditional radome back on. With the info the collect, they can load the proper calibrations in to future C-5Ms without having to do flight testing over and over again. They made it orange so it would be noticable. The people working on that plane for 2 years now aren't exactly used to having a stick coming out the nose)especially when kneeled).
The C-5 may be a FRED, but once you learn the ins and outs of it, the C-5 Galaxy is a awesome plane!
Jetjack74 From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 7338 posts, RR: 52 Reply 11, posted (7 years 3 weeks 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 7485 times:
Quoting KC135R (Thread starter): The CF-6 looks pretty good on the C-5 IMO, and I have no doubt the upgrades will increase FRED's reliability.
A new paint job would be nice. I see that Dover AFB will have her first.
Galaxy5007 From United States of America, joined Sep 2005, 586 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (7 years 3 weeks 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 7468 times:
From what I heard, they are going to paint and refurbish it after flight testing before delivering it to us. 86-0013 is the first one, 86-0025 is second, and 69-0024 is third, all Dover birds. The first 17 will be going to Dover. They planned on incorporating it into the PDM process to minimize down time.
The C-5 may be a FRED, but once you learn the ins and outs of it, the C-5 Galaxy is a awesome plane!
B747 From United States of America, joined May 1999, 245 posts, RR: 2 Reply 13, posted (7 years 3 weeks 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 7364 times:
I for one would love to see the side view of the new engines. I have worked C-5's for over 12 years, and this is very exciting for me. In fact 86-0013 is the last C-5 I flew on as a flying crew chief, before I PCS'd
Please some one give pics or links to side on shots
In this Air Force photograph, a C-5 gets a new
General Electric CF6 engine at the Lockheed
Martin plant in Marietta. The C-5 airlift fleet is
undergoing major modifications that could result
in major guidance, navigation and engine upgrades.
Lumberton From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 4708 posts, RR: 21 Reply 20, posted (6 years 12 months 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 6156 times:
Galaxy5007 From United States of America, joined Sep 2005, 586 posts, RR: 0 Reply 22, posted (6 years 12 months 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 6110 times:
Quoting EMBQA (Reply 21): Looking at the plane it says 512th Air Wing, 436th Air Wing.... which is Dover. Any idea why it carries two Air Wing assignments...??
436th is active duty
512th is reserve
The C-5 may be a FRED, but once you learn the ins and outs of it, the C-5 Galaxy is a awesome plane!
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25 JohnM: Yes they share the airplane. AMC has associate wings that allows active duty and reserve wings to share airframes at the same base. This is common in
26 B747: That's funny John, I have heard the same complaints so many times. I did however here the opposite one time when a Travis pilot told me he would rath
27 Galaxy5007: As of Tuesday, Dover doesn't have any more A-models. All ar B models, B AMP models and the 3 C-5Ms (which one was an A-model, but is in the process o
28 Galaxy5007: Does anyone have video footage of 6013 flying its first flight as a Super Galaxy?
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