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) – 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 ...

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 ...

A U.S. Air Force panel has concluded that the aging C-5A Galaxy transport fleet can keep flying safely for another quarter century if adequate upgrades are made. The Air Force Fleet Viability Board ...

Since 1970, the US Air Force's C-5 cargo planes have carried troops and gear all over the world. The C-5 is the Air Force's biggest plane, and the latest model can haul 281,000 pounds and fly 518 mph.

Before the birds woke up March 12, 63 Air Force Reservists from Port San Antonio's 433rd Airlift Wing gathered at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland prepared to fly out to out to southern California on ...

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 ...

CHICOPEE — If a C-5A Galaxy military jet has ever flown over your head, you know it was impossible not to look sykward. The sound — whining, piercing, screeching, overpowering — recalls the lead-up to ...

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 U.S. Air Force is nearing completion of a formal assessment to determine whether the aging C-5A Galaxy fleet should be retired, a service representative said March 1. The Air Force Fleet Viability ...

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 ...