Thanks, means a lot

@iconoclast That's a nice video of a landing and a takeoff of the "Beast" but it was after the new engines replaced the original "screamer" ones. So that's why it sounds completely different than this video here. But thanks for the link!

I used to love seeing those take off out of El Toro back in the day. I could always hear it before I could see it.

Planes and Games I remember watching Gag’s videos as soon as they went live back when he was getting footage of the last A’s airborne. Good stuff

@@darinbell6982 seems like i remember them flying in and out of Castle once in a while. id have to ask my dad it he ever saw these there. he worked there in the service and as a civilian up until it closed. Malmstrom is way overdue for the chopping block. contrary to popular belief it is absolutely not needed. they could literally service the missiles up at the national guard.

Me TOO

My only experience refueling these bad boys was in an R-9 fuel truck when I was stationed at Mather AFB, CA. We had hydrants but they didn't extend to the transit ramp. Had to fill em with with fuel trucks at about 4500 gallons a piece.

323 SUPS/POL 85-89

I was lucky enough to fly in a C-5 out of Rhein Main and RAF Mildenhall. My daughter's first ever plane ride was out of Mildenhall.

I was stationed at Naval Station Rota Spain70. 73 for my last 2 years i worked transit line. Ran the panel to refuel C 141 and just got certified to refuel C5 towards the end of of my tour. I was Navy but the majority of aircraft i refueled were Air Force. Most c141 and c5s came from Mcguire AFB

Hey cool story Tex, isn't amazing what an experience and some inspiration can do!!!

Makes perfect sense to me. How could you resist the lure

Awesome, former Travis kid! 😊

To be asked " what do you want to do when you grow up" and have an absolute answer. 😎

That's really good story

My youngest brother Chief Senior Master Sargent Murray was stationed there. He was in charge of the, planes and helicopters. I got to climb all over and in one of these monsters! My Dad worked on the B-52’s in Montana and McCoy and I thought they were the biggest planes ever, until I stood next to these.

Yes, they seem to be in slow motion and I'm always amazed how their color blends in so well with the sky. I see them often near their base at Westover Air Reserve Base Chicopee, Ma.

taking off by the power of 4 massive engines and an immense disrespect for gravity 😄

😝😝😝😝

This ain't called the Galaxy for nothing!

C 5 : Noise abatement what's that ??? *pushing the Throttles all the up 100% Max Power* BRAHAHAHA

It's the B1B that shakes the world

I had the pleasure of being the spotter (stood several feet in front of plane watching that nothing got sucked into engine) during engine tests for a C5 when in the Air Force and I can tell you these turbo fans scream at full throttle! But the B1B was louder under afterburner still nothing beat the SR-71 under afterburner that is the ground shaker!

Hey Shoe, during the test flights of the first C5A they would fly directly over our house in Gwinnett County. It looked to be low and slow. Years later when I was stationed at Ft. Campbell I got to watch 23 of them take off one right after the other. You never forget the sound of them running down the runway. It was an awesome sight.

@@krisknowlton5935 thats awesome Kris I still hear them and know what it is instantly

I have a friend who flies fighters in the USAF and he said they do drills where they practice launching as many airplanes as fast as possible in the event of a air raid on a base. I guess many bases do not have hardened bomb resistant hangers because of the cost of building them so they put more effort into having the ability to defend/deter attack. You can not use a hardened hanger to bomb the enemy. Its a trade off between having more planes to fight a war or a fixed structure, He said depending on the threat picture often the fighters are kept fueled and with air to air missiles loaded so all you need is the pilot. In one of the Israel-Arab wars the bulk of the Syrian and Egyptian air forces were destroyed on the ground in a massive and highly successful air raid, They had a decent warning of tens of minutes but were unprepared to scramble their aircraft. They saw the planes coming on radar but they did not react fast enough. More or less the same thing happened to the Soviet Union when Germany attacked. He said they especially practice scrambling as many aircraft as they can from bases in Europe and more eastern Europe and South Korea because of the far shorter time to react from attack from Russia, North Korea, and China. They try to scramble the cargo planes also because in a air raid many of the attackers will be bombers or fighter bombers focused on the ground attack not on shooting down enemy cargo planes. Better to get your C-5s, C-17s, etc. up and away where perhaps they can scatter and reach a safe base.

That sounds awesome!

I spent 3 yrs at Dover ...

My first duty station in the Air Force was at March AFB, which was at that time 22nd Bomb Wing Headquarters. We had 30 B-52C and 30 B-52D bombers with 10 or 12 on the ready alert line. While I was there we had a couple of Operational Readiness Inspections(ORI). We got notified about 15 minutes after their plane landed. In less than another 15 minutes the first Buff was rolling on the runway and when it was about a third of the way down the runway number 2 was rolling and after that it would be 1 lifting off 1 halfway down the runway and 1 starting till they were all gone. The last 3 or 4 takeoffs were a bit wobbly from all the turbulence from the previous launches. I guess nobody will ever see another MITO launch of B-52s. I've forgotten exactly what MITO stood for, possibly Minimum Interval Takeoff.

That's a silly thing to say. Airplanes work *because* the laws of physics, motion, etc are the way they are.

Lunar Delta - Ah, Duh. What a buzz kill. You and Sheldon.

ZEZERBING My platoon had been deployed to Central America the 1st time I'd even heard of these monsters. I was posted at Entry Control to a SCIF when the screaming buzz of the engines got louder and louder as it came in to land.....Friggin thing was like a flying eclipse.....The amount of payload that was taken out of it was impossible for me to comprehend. It was like watching a town's population, and all their vehicles, offload. I was Army.....and a punk kid at the time.....So, my odds of ever seeing one were small.

Anytime my friend, anytime.

Mike Habic, Great story -- thanks!

Phillip Mulligan. The c5 can land and stop within 3 lengths of itself. I have seen it happen. I watched one start to lift off then shut it down. It was at a dead stop within 15 seconds. Not fibbing. They are awesome......

They used the STOL feature in many a emergency location where the runways were compromised by flood, debris damage, or simply too short. They put a C-5 down at Joplin Muni to offload supplies when that EF-5 hit, wrecking St. John's Medical center and a good chunk of the residential district. The rest of the supplies were delivered by C-17 and C-130s.

@Philip Mulligan >>> THANK YOU for posting that -- you made my morning! 😊😊😊

LOL awesome story my friend!

Hahaha that’s great

Massive thrust + massive lift + light (or no) load = short take off roll

I always thought that honor was bestowed on the F-4..........

Tie fighter has the worst sound

Which I never heard or saw in person sadly and there are basically no alternative planes that sound like this :(

Pete Jones the 52 isn’t exactly whispering! I call her the Whistle Bird!

I’m really sad they changed the engines.

BW Acuff Awesome description 👍

Now that's amazing picture you just made bro.

LMMFAO very good description if you weren't able to see what it was lol....

You killed me with that one.

Bruh...i just choked laughing lol

Hello, it was 24 -26 seconds. only the c-130 using jato can get airborn that fast, cheers!

@@billythekid3234 did you watch the video and count the seconds? because it seems to me you cannot count to 16

BILLY THE KID Wrong

It’s those engines is the secret to its sheer power

A full assault takeoff (that's with a full load of fuel and completely stuffed with vehicles, equipment, crew) apparently takes 22 seconds from start up to gear up and just under 2km. And it can land with just over 900m of runway, which doesn't even have to be paved. Insane.

@QUE x Lobz the new ones takeoff in alot shorter distance because the new engines are apot more powerful. In fact I was told they actually debated the engines because they are capable of making more power than the airframe can handle.

I like how you idiots praise the military. One day the very things you all praise will go against you.

It BREACHED the air, like a beautiful whale reaching for the sky. That was incredible

@@Starset1881 not every military is USSR and Iranian military that attacks it's own people

I lived in base housing at Travis Air Force Base, California in the 80's and 90's. When they performed maintenance engine runs in the wee hours of the morning, it sounded like the damned thing was in my back yard.

Could JATO be used on this.

@Andrew E I lived in Mtn. View in the 70s and 80s. I saw and heard the C-5s many times. My brother told me once he driving east on Arques Ave and saw a C-5 flying straight over at a very low altitude apparently not able to climb or gain airspeed. Eventually it did but who knows if it was close to stall speed or not. The new engines were needed.

Thanks for watching captain. Captain and shift commander LABonte air mobility command patriot wing commander.

That's an optical illusion with all jumbos, or any large object. Their size makes them look closer and thus slower than a smaller aircraft or object. They're actually moving about the same speed as any other heavy fixed wing aircraft at that particular phase of flight. How much runway it uses depends greatly on how heavy it is. Here's the other extreme, a C-5 takeoff with a heavy load. Run the engines up to takeoff thrust while standing on the brakes, then down the runway with the engines straining and accelerating like a freight train while eating up almost every inch of a two mile-plus long runway. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z7ajp9xp3qnJp5c.html&ab_channel=dasspr

R.S Cherry brings back memories of my career

I was a flight engineer on the C 5 galaxy for about 15 years. I really enjoyed flying on it. Disco J.

TF-39 engine rocks

I worked at local airport for TransWorld in late 90's. Working the 2nd shift i would wait for the DC-10 Cargo planes from the likes of Fed Ex to take off. Love that sound tooo

@@hooperjaee yep it is a modified pw jt-9d

Just proves if you attach enough thrust you can make anything fly lol

@@JamesTheCaptain ksp tought me thjs

And they go up and down to allow it to squat down for load and unload.

@@joebledsoe257 Thanks Joe. Very impressive engineering.

Have mercy!!!

Inside galaxy airforce plane

Exactly. The new f138's replacing the tf39's is boring

Guam??

They're not moving as slowly as they look. It's an optical illusion with all jumbos. Their size makes them look closer (and therefore slower) than they really are. They're actually moving just as fast as any other heavy jets on takeoff roll, rotation, climb out, approach, etc.

I was told 90 feet from ground to bullet tip by the mechanics. They were the same hight as the 747. Used to have to lift up engines with crane in wing. How? I do not know.

Truth.

Used to live near Dover Air Force Base and remember when the first C5 came. Love the sound of those old engines even when the plane flew over my house at 3 AM .

Gospel music

Watching a C-5 practice a combat/tactical approach and landing was always fun, especially at night. To lessen their exposure to possible ground fire, they maintain their altitude until they get over the runway, then do a spiraling, steep descent onto the runway. Unfortunately for the local plane spotters, C-5s no longer have those screaming TF39 engines and W-P no longer has C-5's.

especially when it has those tf-39 engines on it, also has 2600 pounds of paint!

I grew up in Smyrna Georgia my dad worked at Lockheed in Marietta Georgia for many years until he retired for many years I heard those engines of the C5 I've been living in Texas for thirty-plus years one day I was driving in the neighborhood and pulled over when I heard the engines of a C5 one of my neighbors asked me what I was doing. I told him I was looking up in the sky for a C-5. He said what is a C-5? I told him a big Airforce cargo plane. Suddenly it appeared overhead He exclaimed it was the biggest d@#$ plane he had ever seen .How did I know it was coming. I told him the sound of the engines are distinctive and they don't call it C-5 Gallexy for nothing

I can pick out an F-4 from any other fighter jet and growing up Air Force then being in the Marine Corps as they were phasing out all of the F-4's, A-4's A-6's, AV-8's in favor of the F-18's I grew to know each jets signature noises. The A-10 sounds like nothing else out there. The most unique sound is that of the UH-1. I am not saying I do not love that "Banshee Wail" as I took to calling it my senior year at Ramstein AB.

@@stevywondr63 - Hah! I live in Marietta now just a few miles NE of the end of RWY 29. It's mostly C-130 and UH-60 traffic today, but I first moved there in the early 90s when Dobbins still had an F-15 reserve unit (later B-1B unit short term). It was great watching the F-22 Raptor get put through its paces throughout the 1990s there as well where its final assembly was. And occasionally seeing a "green" one, literally green, without paint yet being test flown! Outside of Highway 41 and the runway viewing area, you'd hardly recognize the area today between Smyrna and Marietta (and everywhere else OTP Atlanta on the north side) if you haven't been there in 30 years!

Thanks mate.

Better in every way except the sound! TF-39s ftw!!!

God I miss that sound :'c

Ditto nothing sounds like the old engines used to be able to tell it was a c5 without looking.

@@rickwilcox5131 we3

Its the sound that draws the crowds

Remember that as well, when on a hot summer day with high density altitude, they were screaming their way over Wiesbaden on one of the SIDs. I loved that distinctive sound of raw power.

L.p.

Yeah I was just arriving!!

I cry ever time I see this video. I have tears in my eyes as I type these words. It is such a majestic aircraft and the videographer captured it perfectly! I flew on my first on in the spring of 77, and been on many since. God bless these aircraft and their crews. So beautiful!

Those are turbo fans

Climb two stair cases, one to get from the ground to the deck and that tall staircase to the top where there were seats for approximately 78 passengers. We did not have anything in the cargo bay but it was a thrill to fly from Yakota AB, Japan to McCord AFB, WA. Amazed it got off the ground.

Unfortunately for plane watchers the C-5's have been re-engined and no longer have those screaming TF39 engines. The new engines are much quieter and sound just like any other modern big fans. They also produce much more thrust, use less fuel, have better commonality with and parts availability, and require less maintenance. Thank goodness for videos like this one so we can once again hear the TF39 scream whenever we want.

B* typo in the video ;) Thanks!