CHICOPEE – After nearly four decades of flying tanks, fire trucks and heavy equipment to places all around the world, the last C-5A Galaxy jet in the U.S. Air Force took off from Westover Air Reserve ...

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 ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Westover Air Reserve Base bid farewell to its last C-5A Galaxy, which took off on its final flight into retirement Thursday morning. The aircraft is headed to the Air Force ...

A U.S. Air Force panel has concluded that the aging C-5A Galaxy transport fleet can keep flying safely for another quarter century if adequate upgrades are made. The Air Force Fleet Viability Board ...

CHICOPEE — If a C-5A Galaxy military jet has ever flown over your head, you know it was impossible not to look sykward. The sound — whining, piercing, screeching, overpowering — recalls the lead-up to ...

A U.S. Air Force review targeting the C-5A fleet for possible retirement is beginning on Oct. 1, at least four months later than scheduled. The Air Force Fleet Viability Board (FVB), launched last ...

The C-5A Galaxy plane nicknamed 'zero-one-four' after its tail number made history 40 years ago by becoming the only aircraft to ever drop an intercontinental nuclear missile at the height of the Cold ...

The last operational C-5A Galaxy airlifter in the U.S. Air Force inventory - takeoff at Westover Air Reserve Base, MA - landing, taxi, and parking at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, AZ to be retired to ...