Have you ever flown on

[Fox Mike]

Looking at Jim's post and seeing the C5. I was wondering how many here have ever loaded and flown on one? Some many years ago my Cav Squadron deployed on one from Dover AFB. Loaded trucks, AH-1Ss, and 70 personnel on one. Scout ships and support personnel on another. That sucker is HUGE.

 

[contender]

Guilty.

 

[ex13F]

Never on a C-5 but a few on C-130s and C-141s and many, many times on 3 different kinds of those flying egg beaters. But that was a long time ago, back in the dark ages, when my hair was still dark.

 

[RC44Mag]

Just once. Mid 80’s onboard my Frigate in Gitmo doing training and got emergency leave orders and boarded a C-5 behemouth back to Norfolk. Just loaded myself and my sea bag. Long time ago and I was pretty much freaking out because I had no idea what was going on at home but I recall they handed us all ear plugs boarding and the enormous space inside was surprisingly empty other than service members from what I could see.

 

[blume357]

Closest I ever came was singing a cadence that still runs through my mind usually on early mornings outside:

"C-130 running down the strip, airborne daddy gonna take a little trip......"

 

[Johnny-Baseball]

I'm told that C-5s were rarely used in the GWOT. C-5s required long runways, longer than most of the US-military-controlled runways in Iraq and Afghanistan. The C-`17s couldn't carry as much cargo, but could land on much shorter runways, and on runways not as well-prepared as needed by the C-5s. So functionally, the C-5 had a relatively short 40-year life, obsoleted by its own flight characteristics.

 

[lipofsky]

Looking at Jim's post and seeing the C5. I was wondering how many here have ever loaded and flown on one? Some many years ago my Cav Squadron deployed on one from Dover AFB. Loaded trucks, AH-1Ss, and 70 personnel on one. Scout ships and support personnel on another. That sucker is HUGE.

Never flown on one but have been inside a couple and once, when very early in my Navy Career I though I knew it all. I stupidly spouted off to senior NCO and had the esteemed pleasure of getting my dumb ass assigned to a wash crew and the plane was a C-5, It took us a few days to do a basic wash. I eventually learned that I was no where near as smart as I thought I was and also learned to keep my mouth shut when I wanted to say something stupid. Went on to retires as a Navy Chief Petty Officer after Awesome 24 years.

 

[bergmen]

Never flown on a C-5 but I did attend a lecture given by the Chief Lockheed Test Pilot ("Army" Armitage) on the C-5 program.

I have forgotten much of his presentation but I do remember his description of the stall characteristics. He said a full power off stall in the C-5 is an amazing experience.

Dan

 

[RoninPA]

I've flown on a C-5B, C-141A, C-141B, C-130, KC-135, KC-10, HH-53 Super Jolly Green Giant, F-16B (while stationed in Egypt). C-121C Lockheed Constellation and T-34 trainer (while in the Civil Air Patrol in the 60's and 70's).

 

[Sugar River]

Dover AFB to Cairo and back in 1994.

 

[Armybrat]

No, but rode in a C-47 from Taipei to Hong Kong & back in 1958.
Long range fuel tank was in the cabin opposite our bench seats, and a coolie baggage handler laid on top of it reading comic books & smoking cigarettes all the way.

 

[thinckley]

Dover AFB to Cairo and back in 1994.

Cairo? You weren't part of the MFO in the Sanai, were you?

 

[sceva]

No but I held a lot of the parts in the first C-17's in my hands, as well as parts for T-45's, C5A's, B1B's, Blackhawks, Chinooks and others in my years at both Mcdonnell Douglas and other aerospace contractors.

 

[Sugar River]

Cairo? You weren't part of the MFO in the Sanai, were you?

No I was part of a team investigating a Mk-19 that went boom in Mogadishu.

 

[thinckley]

No I was part of a team investigating a Mk-19 that went boom in Mogadishu.

Got a little excited. I was part of the MFO from June of 94 to Feb of 95.

 

[s4s4u]

Closest I ever came was singing a cadence that still runs through my mind usually on early mornings outside:

"C-130 running down the strip, airborne daddy gonna take a little trip......"

Sang that song, and rode in that plane

 

[XUSNORDIE]

"C-130 running down the strip, airborne daddy gonna take a little trip......"

Yes to hitching a ride on a C5 and yes to singing two (02) different versions from the C130 cadence. One version in ASF and the other an EOD version....while TAD to Coronado heard a third version

 

[RonEgg]

Flew on all of them over the years including a P-3 from Lajes to Sigonella. Crews I flew with told me if you landed at a base and two of the three C-5s were up on jacks, it meant they were missing a set of jacks.

 

[XUSNORDIE]

Flew on all of them over the years including a P-3

P3 Orion. Worst duty for an ordnance guy ever. Detailers tried pushing it on me a couple times. Nope. Not enough toys to play with.

Aside from helicopters, the most evil (in my experience) the S3 was the most cramped and uncomfortable. Although...that tiny thing could carry a lot of different toys if need be.

 

[OMCHamlin]

Yeah, various times from Olbia, Sardinia, C17 or 5. C5 took me home when my pop passed, not fast enough, but it was what it was… OMG, it was Med summer when I boarded that time, in shorts and a t-shirt. COLD!!!

 

[bobski]

how many jumped out of one?
hehehee........
heres a pic of a C17 in the glory days. the C5 is twice as wide!

 

[Jeepnik]

Hmm, no never a C-5. But let's see if I can remember the others. Jolly, Husky, Super Jolly, Huey, Herc, Starlifter, Jetstar, Nightingale & Stratotanker. But the most interesting rides were on a Spanish PBY Catalina.

 

[Klondike Mike]

Between 1977 and 1982 I logged many flight hours on C-130's as a Crew Chief. I never flew in a C-5 although on slow, rainy nights at Mildenhall AFB we played Frisbee or tossed a football inside one.

 

[GasGuzzler]

In high school my friend's dad was Colonel in the Air National Guard and flew C-130s but he's been dead a while and I lost track of the friend when he moved up to the northeast to be a priest.

 

[XUSNORDIE]

How many remember getting "waffle ass".....or know what that is.....

 

[Jeepnik]

How many remember getting "waffle ass".....or know what that is.....

C-130 from Dover to Torrejon. I had forgotten.

 

[RonEgg]

One of the first things I learned, have a piece or two of bubble wrap.

 

[s4s4u]

How many remember getting "waffle ass".....or know what that is.....

Kinda like a sheep fence sixpack!?!

 

[Jeepnik]

One of the first things I learned, have a piece or two of bubble wrap.

Dug my overcoat out of my duffel bag. Then gave it to a cute little WAF that didn't have any sort of coat. It can get darned cold in the back of a C-130.

 

[Cyrus]

I was in a C5 at Nellis for the Air Force 50th anniversary in 1997. It was grounded. General Yeager taxied past us in a Mustang(?) and we were within 20 feet of an F117 (only plane that was roped off). That was an amazing day. Too young and dumb to have brought a camera.