Size comparison of a C-5M tail next to people

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iSpit0@reddit

F the comparison. Why am I this high off the grind!?!?!

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iSpit0@reddit

Oh it's definitely something, but it ain't that 😂.

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Raguleader@reddit

...that's usually why people get on planes to begin with.

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Katana_DV20@reddit

Are those pointy fairings purely for aerodynamic purposes or are they packed with electronics/sensors etc?

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Notonfoodstamps@reddit (OP)

Aerodynamic and the fairing and horizontal stabilizers are actually one singular structure that rotates to control pitch/trim

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I was in my C172 flying from NJ to VA VFR @ 2500 ft. and flew by Dover AFB. outside Dover control area. There was a C5 doing touch and goes at about 2000 ft. Passed below me and to my left, for a short time I knew what a mosquito felt like before being splattered on the windshield of an eighteen wheeler.

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mrbubbles916@reddit

Fun fact - the dead space inside the cargo hold for the rear door to fold up into is the same volume as the entire cargo hold of a C-130.

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flyboyy513@reddit

Dude that's the thing. I've stood in a C-130 and a C-17, but seeing how big a C-5 is next to them I can't begin to imagine what standing in one is like.

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Notonfoodstamps@reddit (OP)

It’s like standing inside a decent sized warehouse.

The cargo bay for context has roughly the same cross section as one of tubes for the Lincoln Tunnel, NYC lol.

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Turtlehunter2@reddit

We can literally fit a c130 in a c5 with the wings taken off. Now we just need an even smaller plane that fits inside the c130

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IndependenceStock417@reddit

Allow me to introduce you to the C152

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SentientFotoGeek@reddit

It's a bit bigger.

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itchygentleman@reddit

Theres a whole entire passengers cabin in the "little" hump at the back

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Existing_Ad1278@reddit

And everyone sits facing the tail of the airplane. No windows. You lose the sensation of flight when cruising at high altitude and good weather. Was on one of these for over 13 hours, Spain to Dover Delaware. Got to the east coast and couldn’t land because of fog. Circled out over the Atlantic until the aircrew declared an IFE for low fuel. The divert was inland all the way to wright/patt in Ohio.

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30yearCurse@reddit

airman to Crew Chief.. hey is this taxiing for take off?

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Dewey081@reddit

Is there a ladder tunnel in the vert stab?

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GeraintLlanfrechfa@reddit

Actually I believe there’s also a bedroom and a kitchen in there..

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Leather_Fox9237@reddit

That's worth £3,000 per month here in London

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countable3841@reddit

Yeah, rents for like $3k a month in NY too

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GeraintLlanfrechfa@reddit

Nice, it’s kinda mobile home :) Slogan could work be like: you never know where you gonna be tomorrow, maybe Kansas, Jersey or even Afghanistan, ..

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W33b3l@reddit

I don't ever remember seing a kitchen although they might have the generic coffee pot and fridge behind the cockpit in the upper deck like a liner. As for bedroom just a cots count I guess.

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bored_dudeist@reddit

There's a second galley in the rear as well, in the troop compartment near where you enter the vertical tail... no second bedrooms though.

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sleepytipi@reddit

Idk who to believe about any of this, It's all just a bunch of randos chiming in with conflicting statements lol.

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W33b3l@reddit

I used to load them but it's been years since I've been up top so it's fuzzy. Main cargo area though.

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kielu@reddit

There was a short story about a large plane that had maintenance staff driving jeeps inside wings to service the engines. Seems plausible seeing this ladder

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Confident-Homework75@reddit

Yes

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evthrowawayverysad@reddit

The craziest thing about that video has to be that void, presumable under the tail at 15 seconds in... there's like a small apartment's worth of space there... and nothing in it. That plane is so huge it just has voids with no use. insane.

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WallandBall@reddit

Well that void is providing a use, it's empty to keep the plane weight and balance proper.

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lanky_and_stanky@reddit

its also where we let the stowaways freeze to death.

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Baruuk__Prime@reddit

Yup. A ladder does exist inside her Vertical Tail.

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hbpaintballer88@reddit

It's funny you reference my A380 post and make this post, which I also posted this picture on here a year ago. Not calling you out or anything, it's been a year, and is fair game, (you better not get more likes than me though haha).

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Notonfoodstamps@reddit (OP)

I have photos of my own of C-5’s but my computer crashed so I had to resort to old reliable lol

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hbpaintballer88@reddit

Yea, a lot of the crazy pictures I find are on aviation Facebook pages. Pictures I take are rarely that popular.

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hughk@reddit

I remember when Rhein-Main was active seeing a lineup of these.from the civilian side. That was before the A380 was in use so they were the biggest thing out there, dwarfing the 747-400s.

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top_of_the_scrote@reddit

what da hell they having a picnic

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BraidRuner@reddit

No harness or fall protection...must be airforce..they have wings so they figure any one who falls can fly

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Sassy-irish-lassy@reddit

They're not maintenance. They probably don't even know that there are harness attachments up there.

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waddlek@reddit

No fall protection required until you go out the hatch past your waist… oh wait, they are beyond their waist… I guess aircrew thinks rules don’t apply to them

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B1BLancer6225@reddit

Ex Dover jet, tiny bit of blue leftover in the inside airfoil curve of the rudder... They must have been faired while repainted.

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MASSochists@reddit

"next to"

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TxFilmWho16@reddit

Got a tour of these back in 5th grade at lackland

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Rimmatimtim22@reddit

My favorite is seeing the C-17 next to a C-5. C-5 makes the C-17 look a tiny little baby

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imapylet@reddit

Here's the thing that I find amazeballs about the engineering.. we need to find a way to service the tail empanadge yeah no problem we can fit him in there and we can build a ladder.. and you can access most of it. The rest of it you got to access from outside...

The idea of putting in a ladder in your rudder is absolutely astounding. But it fits when you see the rest of the plane

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funkyk0val@reddit

"I said... Biiiiiiiiitch"

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mumutti@reddit

You said that? You called the lieutenant a bitch?

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omarsonmarz@reddit

i understood that reference

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Complete_Train_4298@reddit

It's so big.....

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myaccountgotbanmed@reddit

No banana for scale?

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SentientFotoGeek@reddit

You can't see the banana.

... that's what she said ...

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e28Sean@reddit

Got on the left has a banana in his pocket.

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ScarHand69@reddit

That’s just what he tells people when he’s excited to see them

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NiceAxeCollection@reddit

Lieu.

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SentientFotoGeek@reddit

In place of the correct spelling, lol.

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Kardinal@reddit

Drove me nuts too.

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NiceAxeCollection@reddit

Flying me nuts.

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bondsaearph@reddit

looks like a happy/stoned dude flying with wing ears

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Practical-Ad5938@reddit

Whoa...

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candidly1@reddit

I used to frequent a dealer auction next to Stewart; there's an Air National Guard wing there. Some days they would do training touch and go's with these some days. I swear they would blot out the sun when they went overhead...

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Avarge_Russian_guy@reddit

I think its big enough for right rudder (not sure)

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iggygrey@reddit

I was USAF ATC in the 70s. I worked three facilites. Worked a few of the Galaxies down finals (GCA).

Controllers were briefed on them. They reguired special wake turbulence handling but radar controllers are warned AGAIN that the Galaxy's fluke, atop the tail, shows up as a "smaller aircraft" target very close and trailing the massive target of the main body.

Within 30mi. +/- to the radar shack, the fluke got picked up and showed stronger.

On the PAR, the final radar where ATC talks the pilot down final it showed like a target above and chasing the rest of the Galaxy.

Inevitably, one or two busy radar controllers will scan back to the Galaxy or see it on the final, and you guessed it...

"Galaxy 45 traffic six o'clock less than---"

"Final, Galaxy 45 are you calling traffic on the the fluke?"

"^(DISREGARD) ^(On) ^(course.) ^(On) ^(glidepath.) ^(At) ^(decision) ^(height.) ^(Report) ^(runway.) ^(Contact) ^(tower.")

You did not want to be that airman, that day.

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boosted_frs@reddit

Except they’re prolly up there because they broke again in Ramstein or Rota 😂

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Old-Car-9962@reddit

Is this bigger than the A380, or smaller??

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Notonfoodstamps@reddit (OP)

Dimensionally a C-5 is longer and has a wider fuselage. An A380 has the larger wings/wingspan and is taller.

From the ground, it makes near enough to no difference though. They are both massive

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Old-Car-9962@reddit

Good to know, thanks

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badbatch@reddit

I got to go inside one of these this summer. It's ridiculously huge. I popped my head out of a hatch in the top and it's like being on top of a building. You could litterally make it into a multy unit apartment building.

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