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Couldn't believe that was still there! Amazing to see that take off, you must be the first stream to catch a C5 live brilliant Nikos and Ted. Love the way those main gears rotate 90 degrees before they retract 😮
Exactly how I felt seeing my first C17 Globemaster in action last Friday. There are no words for how graceful and powerful these huge aircraft are. Fantastic, thanks for sharing your wonderful experiences!
Flying house! Awesome, thanks! Back in '91, these were flying over my house in Massachusetts night and day for several weeks, in the lead-up to the First Gulf War. If there was anybody who didn't know war was coming, it wasn't me!
Me and the wife have had the pleasure of walking around the C5 galaxy at RIAT a few years ago. It truly is a beast. Had a chat with the crew, it can fit 2 Chinooks inside of it, and a lot of Ted's 🧸🧸🧸😀😀😀
It is very impressive how little runway large military planes can use. According to Wikipedia, the C-5 needs at least 5,400ft or 1,646 metres of runway to take off. Mildenhall's main runway is 9,213ft or 2,808 metres. I hope they don't have too much cargo onboard, as a C-5 full of cargo would probably not make it out of Mildenhall, similar to that of passengers or cargo on other large planes such as the 747.
Nice footage of a huge beast,I remember seeing one at IAT fairford back in the early nineties on the static display.The nose was raised so I could appreciate the true size of the C5.
Looked like that monster was going to brush those Ospreys out of the way like they were toys, as it turned to head out to the runway!! 😆 Great footage Nikos & Ted 👍
Wonderful video! I am blessed to still reside in what was a sleepy little town about 35 miles to the Northeast of where they built these monsters. I remember vividly the day the first prototype flew over our town and the large lake bordering our county (Lake Sidney Lanier) in Georgia, I was 9 years old at that time and my Dad and I were having a very early breakfast at a favorite eating spot when I looked out the window and noticed a huge smoke trail coming from the West-Northwest, it kept getting closer and bigger and then I realized that it must be that new airplane my uncle has been talking about! My uncle was working at the Lockheed Marietta plant where the C - 5, C-130 family were built. I yelled out "there's the C-5!" and everybody in the restaurant cleared out for a looky- loo! She was about 3 miles away at about 5000' AGL with a T-33 chase plane in tow. That was a smokey fly by and I will never forget it ! Needless to say, I've seen a bunch of C-5 Galaxies! Loved your vid, keep em' coming!👌👍
Oiii Oii AVRO, this was our first time seeing this massive aircraft. You can hear how excited Nikos got just because it started to move lol. It is massive and love the way the landing gear retracts. What a huge aircraft 🤙🏼Ooohhh yeah
Love to watch these giants take off. Watching them land is awesome as well. Their approach is so slow, that you are waiting for them to just fall out of the sky. Watched them daily landing and taking off from Kelly AFB, during basic training a Lackland AFB, which was just across the road.
Sadly not a patch on the C-5A and B with TF-39s... fabulous noise even when passing overhead at 35,000'. Remember seeing this vapour trailing block of flats flying over my Surrey school 45 years ago, first I'd seen... marvellous. Had a look inside one at the Mildenhall Air Fete the following year.
No sort of "fixed schedule" for them, but you do see them fairly often, along with AWACS, RivetJoints, C-17s etc. Even Air Force One has been in and out a few times...along with the regular C130s and KC 135s, and the Ospreys; as seen in the video, which are stationed here....
Hi Michael, I guess maybe once a week or two but it’s being there at the right place and the right time. Usually when we come to Mildenhall it’s sat there for days. Oohhh yeah
Hey Nicos, me and my dad are taking a trip up from the southwest of England to lakenheath and Mildenhall next month spending a day at each Thursday mildenhall and the Friday lakenheath would you say that's the best way of getting the most from each base?? Keep up the good work 👌🏻 ohhhhhhhh yeeeeeeeaaaahhhh 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻
we was at conningsby yesterday 28th june. and we nipped to the loos in town then on way back there was a big white bog plane passenger we believe for around 30 - 40 people. we thought it had not long landed as hadnt been there before we nipped to loos. so carried on then as i turned back to look saw it take off again.... just beng nosy but would it be anyone special or would it be top superior captains etc.
Sounds like the Embraer ERJ145 callsign “FELIX”. It is from Warton AD and is a “work bus” for the BAe Systems staff. You’ll see it about twice a day taking the staff to Coningsby and back to Warton Ooohhh yeah
This Super Galaxy footage reminds me of the Hughes H-4. Derisively known to the press as the "Spruce Goose", the Hughes Hercules was developed for the same role as today's Lockheed C-5, rapid tran-oceanic delivery of troops and equipment. In the case of the Hercules, the motivation was the Nazi u-boat threat, which could have made the build-up for D-Day too slow or too costly to have been strategically practical. Of course, Howard Hughes and the U. S. government committees and advisory boards that made many procurement decisions knew nothing about Brechtley Park and Ultra, so the possibility of the closure of the Atlantic to conventional merchant ship convoys was quite real to the men tasked with dealing with uncertainty. Whereas the C-5M has a wingspan of over 222 feet, the H-4 had nearly 100 feet more. The C-5M can carry 70 fully equipped troops plus about 300,000 pounds of stuff. Detailed data on the H-4 is difficult to find, but 400 fully equipped troops has been published, at 200 lbs each (140 lbs man plus 60 lbs gear and weapons) that's 80,000 pounds plus avgas for 3000 miles. Not bad for piston power! (Eight P&W radials at 3000 hp each.) The H-4 was designed as a seaplane, a flying ship rather than a flying boat, because runways with enough length and enough strength didn't exist in 1939-45. After the war, Saunders-Roe built the Princess airliner as a seaplane for the same reason. However, the growth of modern airports made a white elephant of the fabulous Princess, along with seaplanes generally. The driving force behind the engineering technology of modern international airports was another postwar giant designed to cope with unthinkable contingencies, the Convair B-36. Designed originally to bomb Germany from North American airbases, the YB-36A prototype had a nasty habit of breaking through the concrete runways of 1947. New materials and construction methods made runways tougher even though the B-36 only got heavier with each new version, spelling the end for luxury seaplanes.
Oii Oii Andy, I can’t remember, but the live stream will show pallets and pallets of stuffs but couldn’t remember if it was going in or out. Ooohhh yeah
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Oiii oiii thanks man
Because I couldn't be live all day but still got to see this on replay , thank you ❤
Oiii oiiii Aimee thank you so much. ❤️
Absolutely marvellous footage of such a massive plane that the C5 is truly amazing
Oiii oiiii
Couldn't believe that was still there! Amazing to see that take off, you must be the first stream to catch a C5 live brilliant Nikos and Ted.
Love the way those main gears rotate 90 degrees before they retract 😮
Ooohhh yeah
Exactly how I felt seeing my first C17 Globemaster in action last Friday. There are no words for how graceful and powerful these huge aircraft are. Fantastic, thanks for sharing your wonderful experiences!
Ooohh yeah
Love the C-5 this is ,brilliant 🤩
Ooohhhh yeah
I understand the basic physics of flight, but wow! It still amazes me how that beast gets off the ground!!! What an aircraft!!!
Awesome footage.
Thanks Paul
Flying house! Awesome, thanks! Back in '91, these were flying over my house in Massachusetts night and day for several weeks, in the lead-up to the First Gulf War. If there was anybody who didn't know war was coming, it wasn't me!
Ooohhh yeah
Me and the wife have had the pleasure of walking around the C5 galaxy at RIAT a few years ago. It truly is a beast. Had a chat with the crew, it can fit 2 Chinooks inside of it, and a lot of Ted's 🧸🧸🧸😀😀😀
Man...... I can't believe how short a takeoff run that was for such a Behemoth of an Aircraft 😯
Must have running light
It is very impressive how little runway large military planes can use. According to Wikipedia, the C-5 needs at least 5,400ft or 1,646 metres of runway to take off. Mildenhall's main runway is 9,213ft or 2,808 metres. I hope they don't have too much cargo onboard, as a C-5 full of cargo would probably not make it out of Mildenhall, similar to that of passengers or cargo on other large planes such as the 747.
Great info thanks bud.
Really impressive
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Got into the air at the 6,000
'to go marker' (from the other direction) so yes about right
Great video, well tracked, she's a monster of an aircraft..how does she stay up there!! Wow....thanks for sharing, what a majestic sight..
Thanks Madeleine 🤙🏼
Monster plane, defying gravity! Great shots Nicos
Oiii Oii Lesley thank you very much
Superb stuff Nicos,you are the Mildenhall Maestro…magic!
Oiii oiii thank you so much
She's a biggen! Drove past Mildenhall earlier today saw her in the skies. Even in the air she is humongous.. 😮
Oiii oiii Daniel. She sure is 🤙🏼🇺🇸Ooohhh yeah
I absolutely love the C-5 Galaxy. The competition between Lockheed and Boeing lead to that behemoth, and the gorgeous Queen of the Skies, the 747!
Ooohh yeah
Nice footage of a huge beast,I remember seeing one at IAT fairford back in the early nineties on the static display.The nose was raised so I could appreciate the true size of the C5.
I was there too. Walked right throigh it.
Ooohhh yeah
Looked like that monster was going to brush those Ospreys out of the way like they were toys, as it turned to head out to the runway!! 😆
Great footage Nikos & Ted 👍
Oiii oiii Steve thanks man 🤙🏼Ooohhh yeah
Wow, a great sight to behold. Thanks for tracking it into the cloud cover!😀
Thank you very much glad you enjoyed
Wonderful video! I am blessed to still reside in what was a sleepy little town about 35 miles to the Northeast of where they built these monsters. I remember vividly the day the first prototype flew over our town and the large lake bordering our county (Lake Sidney Lanier) in Georgia, I was 9 years old at that time and my Dad and I were having a very early breakfast at a favorite eating spot when I looked out the window and noticed a huge smoke trail coming from the West-Northwest, it kept getting closer and bigger and then I realized that it must be that new airplane my uncle has been talking about! My uncle was working at the Lockheed Marietta plant where the C - 5, C-130 family were built. I yelled out "there's the C-5!" and everybody in the restaurant cleared out for a looky- loo! She was about 3 miles away at about 5000' AGL with a T-33 chase plane in tow. That was a smokey fly by and I will never forget it ! Needless to say, I've seen a bunch of C-5 Galaxies! Loved your vid, keep em' coming!👌👍
Oiii oiii thank you very much
Excellent footage. UK
Thanks David 🤙🏼
Great aircraft, great footage, thanks Ted. Dave.
Oiii oiii Dave, thank you
Good place to work ! The views are fab .
Oooh yeah
Now this is a tad, huge, lol. Great indeed Sadly, won't fit in my driveway but may be able to stow my shoes! Wonderful shot Ted, sir.
I’m sure if you moved the C130 a little bit more towards the garden and tucked the Jaguar closer to it, you fit that in ❤️
Fitting new engines was the best thing ever for that aircraft
Big beautiful bird🍻😎👍
Flying Warehouse.
Ooohhh yeah totally 💯
I can't help tensing my stomach muscles when that plane rotates and lifts off!😮
Ooohh yeah
Nice one Ted and Nico
Ooohh yeah
Such a beauty
Oiii oiii Colin 🤙🏼
That C-5M is from the 436th Airlift Wing, based at Dover AFB, Delaware, as indicated by the bright blue tail stripe.
Excellent thank you.
That thing is immense! It’s nose wheel alone is larger than most aircraft’s landing gear! Was that a PTO too 😂 It skims everything
Oiii Oii AVRO, this was our first time seeing this massive aircraft. You can hear how excited Nikos got just because it started to move lol. It is massive and love the way the landing gear retracts. What a huge aircraft 🤙🏼Ooohhh yeah
Love to watch these giants take off. Watching them land is awesome as well. Their approach is so slow, that you are waiting for them to just fall out of the sky. Watched them daily landing and taking off from Kelly AFB, during basic training a Lackland AFB, which was just across the road.
Sadly not a patch on the C-5A and B with TF-39s... fabulous noise even when passing overhead at 35,000'. Remember seeing this vapour trailing block of flats flying over my Surrey school 45 years ago, first I'd seen... marvellous. Had a look inside one at the Mildenhall Air Fete the following year.
Oiii oiii Mark 🤙🏼
Nice short rollout!
Ooohh yeah
And YES it flies 😊
I wonder how many Teds it would take to fill a Galaxy 😅
Oooh this is great. I think we need to find this out 😎
what an absolute beast...always wanted to see one of those. how often do they come here?
No sort of "fixed schedule" for them, but you do see them fairly often, along with AWACS, RivetJoints, C-17s etc. Even Air Force One has been in and out a few times...along with the regular C130s and KC 135s, and the Ospreys; as seen in the video, which are stationed here....
Seems to be more often now. If you really want to see one and don't mind traveling then Ramstein is definitely the place to go!
Hi Michael, I guess maybe once a week or two but it’s being there at the right place and the right time. Usually when we come to Mildenhall it’s sat there for days. Oohhh yeah
I can't believe how the size of that aircraft and it's weight gets of the ground.
I remember the galaxy at raf mildenhall airshow 1980s
Would love to see one of these fly!!
I want to see that run the Mach Loop :)
Did that C-5 deliver those Ospreys in the foreground?
No it didn’t
Are you using a telephoto lens
The British Isles just gained some boyancy.
That's what I call the big bird 😂
Hey Nicos, me and my dad are taking a trip up from the southwest of England to lakenheath and Mildenhall next month spending a day at each Thursday mildenhall and the Friday lakenheath would you say that's the best way of getting the most from each base??
Keep up the good work 👌🏻 ohhhhhhhh yeeeeeeeaaaahhhh 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻
Hi Josh, I would always say it is pot luck but , make a plan and stick to it though is my recommendation
we was at conningsby yesterday 28th june. and we nipped to the loos in town then on way back there was a big white bog plane passenger we believe for around 30 - 40 people. we thought it had not long landed as hadnt been there before we nipped to loos. so carried on then as i turned back to look saw it take off again.... just beng nosy but would it be anyone special or would it be top superior captains etc.
Sounds like the Embraer ERJ145 callsign “FELIX”. It is from Warton AD and is a “work bus” for the BAe Systems staff. You’ll see it about twice a day taking the staff to Coningsby and back to Warton Ooohhh yeah
the old c 5 was much more powerfull,she sreams very crazy,the new c 5 is not so noisy,i saw the old loud one 40 years here in germany in ramstein
i miss the old sreamy engines,they were much powerfuller in the noise,this one ist to normal
This Super Galaxy footage reminds me of the Hughes H-4. Derisively known to the press as the "Spruce Goose", the Hughes Hercules was developed for the same role as today's Lockheed C-5, rapid tran-oceanic delivery of troops and equipment. In the case of the Hercules, the motivation was the Nazi u-boat threat, which could have made the build-up for D-Day too slow or too costly to have been strategically practical. Of course, Howard Hughes and the U. S. government committees and advisory boards that made many procurement decisions knew nothing about Brechtley Park and Ultra, so the possibility of the closure of the Atlantic to conventional merchant ship convoys was quite real to the men tasked with dealing with uncertainty. Whereas the C-5M has a wingspan of over 222 feet, the H-4 had nearly 100 feet more. The C-5M can carry 70 fully equipped troops plus about 300,000 pounds of stuff. Detailed data on the H-4 is difficult to find, but 400 fully equipped troops has been published, at 200 lbs each (140 lbs man plus 60 lbs gear and weapons) that's 80,000 pounds plus avgas for 3000 miles. Not bad for piston power! (Eight P&W radials at 3000 hp each.)
The H-4 was designed as a seaplane, a flying ship rather than a flying boat, because runways with enough length and enough strength didn't exist in 1939-45. After the war, Saunders-Roe built the Princess airliner as a seaplane for the same reason. However, the growth of modern airports made a white elephant of the fabulous Princess, along with seaplanes generally. The driving force behind the engineering technology of modern international airports was another postwar giant designed to cope with unthinkable contingencies, the Convair B-36. Designed originally to bomb Germany from North American airbases, the YB-36A prototype had a nasty habit of breaking through the concrete runways of 1947. New materials and construction methods made runways tougher even though the B-36 only got heavier with each new version, spelling the end for luxury seaplanes.
wow was that empty? Impressive.... Ohh Yeah
Oii Oii Andy, I can’t remember, but the live stream will show pallets and pallets of stuffs but couldn’t remember if it was going in or out. Ooohhh yeah
Rhode Island with engines attached.
Nice camera work. And yes, the C-5 is impressive, but I'll take the C-17 over it any day.
wont be long before they bring out a fully electric version ha ha ha.
I suppose it is the biggest plane again , now the Antonov is gone ..........bit of a dance to get that main gear stowed away ??
That's tiny compared to a antonov.
Not really
Not as impressive as the earlier models with the origonal engines.