C-5 Galaxy with a TomcatFrom Autopia/Wired:
Say you have 60 tons of cargo, or a half dozen Apache helicopters you need moved across the Atlantic.
Who you gonna call?
Well Lt. Col. Scott Erickson is happy to help. And thanks to his new cargo carrying behemoth, he can get you there quicker and can carry more supplies than he could have just a few years ago.
For more than a decade Lt. Col. Erickson has been flying the massive C-5 Galaxy for the U.S. Air Force. The giant cargo plane has been around for a while, and after nearly 40 years of service, the Pentagon recently decided to upgrade the largest plane in the fleet. And the difference for the pilots was noticeable the first time they flew the new C-5M model.
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My Comment: I had the opportunity to stand inside a C-5 .... the pictures can never capture the sense of how big it is.