{"id":401935,"date":"2026-04-09T07:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T21:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/lockheed-c-5-galaxy-largest-us-military-transport-constructed\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T07:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T21:30:19","slug":"lockheed-c-5-galaxy-inside-the-largest-us-military-transport-aircraft-ever-constructed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=401935","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed C-5 Galaxy: Inside The Largest US Military Transport Aircraft Ever Constructed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lockheed<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-5M Super Galaxy<\/a><\/span> is the largest military transport aircraft in the United States Air Force, although not the largest in the world. That title goes to the Antonov An-124 Ruslan, after<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2047570\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-antonov-construct-an-225-6-engines\/\" >the destruction of the world&#8217;s only An-225 Mriya in 2022<\/a><\/span>. It is also smaller than the Airbus A380 and most Boeing 747 civil airliners. However, as a military aircraft, it is able to &#8216;kneel,&#8217; conduct aerial refueling, and perform short take-offs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The C-5M Super Galaxy serves a critical role in the US Air Force logistics around the world.<\/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":[396,5549,1624,412,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-c-5-galaxy","category-lockheed","category-military","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401935","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=401935"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402051,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401935\/revisions\/402051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=401935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=401935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=401935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}