The Aviationist

Watch C-5A Galaxy’s Wing Vortices Tests At NASA Langley Research Center in 1970s

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 ...
Air Force Times

Sky was limit for first Black aircrew at Dover Air Force Base

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 ...
The Advocate

AP IMPACT: Congress slows military efforts to save

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 ...
Aviation Week

Tactair Fluid Controls received a $3 million U.S. government contract

Tactair Fluid Controls received a $3 million U.S. government contract to provide Self Displacing Accumulators (SDA) to retrofit C-5A Galaxy aircraft. The Tactair SDA, a piston-type hydraulic ...