{"id":261076,"date":"2025-08-03T15:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/lockheed-c-5-galaxy-bigger-airbus-a380\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T15:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T05:00:17","slug":"is-a-lockheed-c-5-galaxy-bigger-than-an-airbus-a380","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=261076","title":{"rendered":"Is A Lockheed C-5 Galaxy Bigger Than An Airbus A380?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy\/C-5M Super Galaxy is the largest transport aircraft built for the United States Air Force, while the double-decked Airbus A380 is the largest passenger aircraft ever built. The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"261272\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/c-5-galaxy\/\"  >C-5 Galaxy<\/a><\/span> hails from a time when the Air Force thought progress and enhanced capacities meant progressively larger aircraft. However, after the Galaxy, the Air Force went on to procure the smaller C-17 Globemaster III and <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2034002\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-smaller-airlifter-c130\/\" >is now looking for an even smaller next-generation airlifter<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apart from aircraft length, the Airbus A380 is comprehensively larger than the Air Force&#8217;s C-5M Super Galaxy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[898,396,5549,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a380","category-aircraft","category-c-5-galaxy","category-largest-aircraft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261077,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261076\/revisions\/261077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}