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 ...

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 ...

The last operational C-5A Galaxy airlifter in the U.S. Air Force inventory - takeoff at Westover Air Reserve Base, MA - landing, taxi, and parking at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, AZ to be retired to ...

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 ...

A belly landing for a giant C-5 Galaxy. The photo in this post was taken by one of our readers, Tyll Parker, at Travis Air Force Base, California, in July 1983. Parker was a Lieutenant with the 1901st ...

A U.S. Air Force review targeting the C-5A fleet for possible retirement is beginning on Oct. 1, at least four months later than scheduled. The Air Force Fleet Viability Board (FVB), launched last ...

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 ...