of 436th Airlift WingDover Air Force Base, Delaware, and Test Building No. 96 From Eglin AFB, the 436th AW recently conducted a unique training exercise. C-5M Super Galaxy It flew to Eglin so that the base unit could handle the support vehicles and load them onto the largest aircraft in the Air Force’s inventory.
Vehicles, including the base’s new P-23 fire engine, humveefront-end loaders, ambulances, etc. were weighed and measured by aerial porters of Eglin’s 96th Logistics Readiness Squadron, then ready for loading and mock transfer.
When the aircraft arrived and opened for loading, the vehicles and their drivers lined up and entered the C-5 through the wide mouth.
The C-5 can be loaded from the front or rear of the aircraft, has a cargo capacity of 281,000 pounds, can fly 2,150 nautical miles, unloads, and flies to a second base 500 nautical miles from its original destination. You can fly. Air refueling.
“This is a rare opportunity for Eglin Airmen to develop loading plans and practice securing vehicles to aircraft,” said Tech. helped me adjust.
It was also an opportunity for firefighters, medics, refuelers and air transport personnel to put their main vehicles on board the aircraft. Many of them were new to us.
“It was my first time loading a vehicle on an aircraft, let alone the largest aircraft, so it was nerve-wracking, but it was a good nerve.” I tried not to
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