Founder’s PirateTag with C-5 Galaxy

Fly this C-5 around the world.

This is Tag that was given to me by Bryan one of the founders at the "Going APE...at the Tunnel of Light" Mega event in Washington State. I figured I would attach it to something I have been working and flying on for 21 years, the C-5 Galaxy. This aircraft has taken me all around the world. Now it's time for someone else to take it on a flight around the world.

 Here is some facts about the C-5 Galaxy:

Features
The C-5 has a greater capacity than any other airlifter. It has the ability to carry 36 standard pallets and 81 troops simultaneously. The Galaxy is also capable of carrying any of the Army's air-transportable combat equipment, including such bulky items as the 74-ton mobile scissors bridge. It can also carry outsize and oversize cargo over intercontinental ranges and can take off or land in relatively short distances. Ground crews are able to load and off-load the C-5 simultaneously at the front and rear cargo openings, reducing cargo transfer times. Other features of the C-5 are:
· Able to operate on runways 6,000 feet long (1,829 meters).
· Five landing gear totaling 28 wheels to distribute the weight.
· Nose and aft doors that open the full width and height of the cargo
compartment to permit faster and easier loading.
· A "kneeling" landing gear system that permits lowering the parked
aircraft to facilitate drive-on/drive-off vehicle loading and adjusts the
cargo floor to standard truck-bed height.
· Full width drive-on ramps at each end for loading double rows of
vehicles.
· A maintenance diagnostics system that records and analyzes data from more than 800 (C-5A) and 7000 (C-5M) test points so that maintenance repair time is reduced.

The C-5 has the distinctive high T-tail, 25-degree wing sweep, and four turbofan engines mounted on pylons beneath the wings.

The C-5 has 12 internal wing tanks with a total capacity of 51,150 gallons (194,370 liters) of fuel -- enough to fill 6 1/2 regular size railroad tank cars. A full fuel load weighs 332,500 pounds (150,820 kilograms). A C-5 with a cargo load of 270,000 pounds (122,472 kilograms) can fly 2,150 nautical miles, offload, and fly to a second base 500 nautical miles away from the original destination -- all without aerial refueling. With aerial refueling, the aircraft's range is limited only by crew endurance. 

General characteristics

• Crew: 8 typical (pilot, first pilot, 1st Officer, two flight engineers, three loadmasters)
  4 minimum (pilot, copilot, two flight engineers)
• Payload: 270,000 lb (122,470 kg)
• Length: 247 ft 1 in (75.31 m)
• Wingspan: 222 ft 9 in (67.89 m)
• Height: 65 ft 1 in (19.84 m)
• Wing area: 6,200 ft² (576 m²)
• Empty weight: 380,000 lb (172,370 kg)
• Loaded weight: 769,000 lb (348,800 kg)
• Max. takeoff weight: 840,000 lb (381,000 kg)
• Powerplant: 4 × General Electric TF39-GE-1C high-bypass turbofan, 43,000 lbf (190 kN) each

Performance

• Maximum speed: Mach 0.79 (503 kn, 579 mph, 932 km/h)
• Cruise speed: Mach 0.77 (919 km/h)
• Range: 2,400 nmi (2,760 mi, 4,440 km) with a 263,200 lb (119,400 kg) payload
• Service ceiling: 35,700 ft (10,600 m) at 615,000 lb (279,000 kg) gross weight
• Rate of climb: 1,800 ft/min (9.14 m/s)
• Wing loading: 120 lb/ft² (610 kg/m²)
• Thrust/weight: 0.22
• Takeoff roll: 8,400 ft (2,600 m)
• Landing roll: 3,600 ft (1,100 m)
• Fuel capacity: 51,150 US gal (193,600 L)