This video shows how NASA studied wingtip vortices using a C-5A Galaxy about 50 years ago. Although they dissipate at a certain distance from the wing, wingtip vortices, that form because of the ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Westover Air Reserve Base bid farewell to its last C-5A Galaxy, which took off on its final flight into retirement Thursday morning. The aircraft is headed to the Air Force ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – This week marks the end of an era at Westover Air Reserve Base, as the U.S. Air Force’s last C-5A Galaxy is scheduled to take its final flight. According to a news release ...

The US military could juggle its mix of strategic airlift and sealift resources based on the results of a mobility capabilities study due to be launched later this month, but the fate of the Lockheed ...

The US Air Force wants to start retiring its eight worst-performing Lockheed Martin C-5A Galaxy strategic transports, but is still awaiting Congressional approval. USAF officials have yet to be be ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Parked around the airstrip at Lackland Air Force Base are more than a dozen massive C-5A Galaxy transport planes. There is no money to fly them, repair them or put pilots in the ...

The C-5 Galaxy is an intercontinental-range, heavy-lift military cargo/personnel-transport aircraft. The aircraft made its first flight in June 1968; 81 of the C-5A model were produced through 1973.

FILE - A Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, a military transport aircraft used by the United States Air Force, UK, Sept. 11 1974. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) DOVER, Del. — It was a ...

CPI Aerostructures won a contract valued at $1.6 million to supply 10 landing gear kneeling door assemblies for the U.S. Air Force's C-5A Galaxy cargo aircraft. The contract is the first that CSI has ...

Fifteen of the C-5A Galaxy aircraft are at Lackland, where crews are getting in some flights now preparing for the retirement, while 11 are at Martinsburg, W.Va., and are flown by the Air National ...