{"id":28608,"date":"2024-04-19T02:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/ultimate-guide-to-fred-usaf-c-5-super-galaxy\/"},"modified":"2024-04-19T02:00:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T16:00:14","slug":"ultimate-guide-to-fred-the-c-5-super-galaxy-that-is-the-usafs-largest-cargo-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=28608","title":{"rendered":"Ultimate Guide To FRED: The C-5 Super Galaxy That Is The USAF&#8217;s Largest Cargo Plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Lockheed<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/c-5-galaxy\/\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">C-5 Galaxy<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">is today&#39;s<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/is-lockheed-c-5-galaxy-bigger-than-airbus-a380\/\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">largest military transport in the United States Air Force (larger than the A380)<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. The giant aircraft gives the<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/us-air-force\/\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Air Force<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">intercontinental strategic airlift capabilities and can carry oversized and outsized loads. The Super Galaxy can carry 350 people, two M1 Abrams main battle tanks, six Boeing AH-64 Apache helicopters, or 5 Bradley Fighting Vehicles. The belly of the beast is wide enough for double rows of vehicles. It can carry up to twice as much cargo as any other US airlifter (although it rarely does carry these heavy loads to preserve its airframe).<\/span>\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The C-5 Super Galaxy is expected to fly beyond 2040 and is the Air Force&#8217;s only and largest strategic airlifter.<\/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":[1258,396,5549,570,567,412,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-aircraft","category-c-5-galaxy","category-guide","category-guides","category-military","category-transport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28608","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=28608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28609,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28608\/revisions\/28609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}