^ Reminds me of an observation some years ago that, depending upon the application, wings can be used either to cause flight, or to prevent it.



Unrelated:

 

Ah, so that's what all those people who were hoarding toilet paper last year were doing with it.

 

 

*Shakes hand at meow count*

MEOW

 

Interesting factoid... The rear of the fuselage on the C-5 is hollow. There's a door that opens to the area, but it doesn't have a floor. The crew stores some toilet paper in there, but you can't put anything substantial in the space as it messes up the center of gravity. That empty, unuseable space is actually bigger than the cargo area of the C-130.

 

Not directly related to the C-5, but more the fact that I find Soviet aerospace design to be interesting.

Looking aft from the flight deck of an Antonov An-124:



In addition to the two pilots, the aircraft was crewed by two navigators and two engineers.

This is a cargo plane which went into service in the mid 80s, and continued production until 2004. And it has a flight-deck crew of six.


And it's painted that same horrible shade of Turquoise as every other Soviet-designed everything.

 

 

 

Is the highlighted area the space you're referring to?




I found this interesting picture here, showing them transporting the fuselage of a C-130. Yikes!

 

 

I believe so, plus the area directly under the tail. I was stationed at Kelly AFB at the B-52 Depot 30 years ago. The C-5 Depot was there, as well. All the depot crewdogs were in the same squadron, but we weren't qualified to check out both air vehicles. I saw C-5s every day, and toured it a couple of times, but never took a ride. The brain cells carrying those memories have since been compromised.

 

 

 

 

 

Came here to post this.

Saw it posted.

Props.

 

 

Well, ****'s gotta be hauled.

In all seriousness, I'd wager that the reversing characteristics of that rig are actually pretty decent, judging by the proportions.

Having stared at it for a while, I even think the balance of the middle load is probably close to tolerable. Guessing that the static tongue weight at the forward coupling is near zero.

Braking might be interesting.


The crack in the windshield of the vehicle from which this photo was taken is pissing me off more than the subject of the photo.