Evening MAC
Huge US Air Force Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, 68-0224 raises her nose to unload her cargo at RAF Mildenhall on a June evening way back in 1975.
We'd watched her arrive earlier - standing under the approach lights until being enveloped by her gigantic presence and thunderous noise - she washed right over our heads with everything 'hanging out' to land at this sprawling Suffolk Air base.
Back then she came under the appropriately named 'Military Airlift Command' (MAC) which replaced the old MATS (Military Air transport Service). MAC is long gone - now renamed rather insipidly - AMC (Air Mobility Command).
One of the largest aircraft flying most early C-5A's are being phased out to the boneyard in Arizona but some of the later C-5B models are being rebuilt as the vastly improved C-5M with new systems, engines and a 'glass' cockpit, these giants wil be around for a few more years to come.
Scanned 35mm Transparency
Evening MAC
Huge US Air Force Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, 68-0224 raises her nose to unload her cargo at RAF Mildenhall on a June evening way back in 1975.
We'd watched her arrive earlier - standing under the approach lights until being enveloped by her gigantic presence and thunderous noise - she washed right over our heads with everything 'hanging out' to land at this sprawling Suffolk Air base.
Back then she came under the appropriately named 'Military Airlift Command' (MAC) which replaced the old MATS (Military Air transport Service). MAC is long gone - now renamed rather insipidly - AMC (Air Mobility Command).
One of the largest aircraft flying most early C-5A's are being phased out to the boneyard in Arizona but some of the later C-5B models are being rebuilt as the vastly improved C-5M with new systems, engines and a 'glass' cockpit, these giants wil be around for a few more years to come.
Scanned 35mm Transparency