C-5A Rollout, First Flight, Delivery USAF 1968 Pres. Johnson

(C-5A Galaxy First Flight!). Up close movies at Dobbins AFB / Lockheed Georgia Co 1968 when President Lyndon B. Johnson and "Ladybird" Johnson visited in Air Force One to witness the ROLLOUT of the C-5A Galaxy. I was very close in to capture FIRST FLIGHT of the C-5A in June, and DELIVERY of the first C-5A going to the Air Force at Altus AFB- Dec 1968. Movies of President Johnson, Ladybird and Lynda Robb Johnson with David Eisenhower, then Govenor Lester Maddux and other dignitaries. You gain an appreciation of the huge size of the C-5A . e.g...The Wright Brothers 'first flight' at Kittyhawk was shorter than the whole wing span of a C-5A! Enjoy your comments!

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• C-5A
• Galaxy
• Lockheed
• USAF
• President
• Lyndon
• Johnson
• Ladybird
• First
• Flight
• C-5
• Rollout
• Ceremonies
• Delivery

[IdolHans]

World's first jumbo jet! I logged 6981.5 hours on the C-5 and was an instructor flight engineer in the 22nd Airlift Squadron. I just bought the book "C-5 History---Crushing Setbacks, Decisive Achievements". The prototype---68303---That was the aircraft that was destroyed on the ground at Dobbins when a technician hooked up a ground heater duct to a open fuel cell, then routed the ducting to the ground, hooked it up to the heater unit, lit the heater unit and blew the airplane up.

[doogie1136]

@IdolHans

I was working there when the ship blew up. Quite a scene. Mechanic was killed in the explosion...sad.

[rdanlord]

I lived and went to school less than three miles from the Lockheed/ Dobbins tarmac. The flight path of the Galaxy during it's test runs was right over my house. When it flew over, one could look straight up and into the cargo bay through the opening of the landing gear. The plane seemed to float like a blimp. I also was near Lockheed when a C-5 exploded during refueling in 1970. The blast lit the Marietta night sky. Proud to have had my late Aunt Lorene as a planner on the C-5 project. Awesome!!

[doogie1136]

I was there during the blowup of the C-5 at the B-25 flight area and the explosion (which was due to fumes in tanks ignited somehow. One technician was killed. I was there when the AF team came to investigate.

[doogie1136]

I can see the possibilities but definitely my home movies. I had a great vantage point on the runway siding... There was a time when I was stationed there that the C-5A blew over a Volkswagon near the B-25 building run up area!

[MightyMaul]

awesome video! these planes are soooo huge it almost seems that they are buildings... until they takeoff.( is it just me or did the takeoff seem kina smokey?)

[doogie1136]

Thanks!. Yes but I think they worked on that issue over time. We had to clear traffic out of Dobbins when the C-5 took off- delays behind the plane were significant--somewhat unsure what the turbulence would be when the first flights took place, so everyone waited quite a bit of time for things to calm down. It did look like a building--this was before the Boeing 747 took flight.

[wigtonjr]

WOW What a wonderfull video. My father was a production test pilot on the C-5. I have his flight crew pins. And many great memories. I will foward this on to a friend who's father was a pilot on the 1st flight. Thanks.

[IdolHans]

Worlds's first jumo jet. I got to be an instructor flight enginer on it logging 6981.5 hours. I got my money's worth. Check out my Major Jill Metzger scandal video. The Air Force has gone to hell with political correctness running it and ruining it!

[DEVASTATOR478]

U.S.A. !!!

[louisefrainsanchez]

My dad was a tool and die maker on this first C5a...I remember the blast in the middle of the night I was 6, you don't forget this stuff. The story I have heard all of these years is that a certification for landing gear was not completing all of the cycles required due to hydraulic temps increasing so a shortcut was ill advised and placed chilling units on some safety valve to aid in cooling , the pressure built up killed the workers when the system blew. I miss the sound of jets screaming!

[michael70224]

I live were C-5s train sometimes they spend allday shooting TandGs what a site i really like the C-5 .

[piratesclemente]

I was stationed at Fort McPherson in 1968. I had heard about the first flight of this monster of a plane.

My most vivid memory of this flight was that the chase jet flying along side of the C5 looked as though it was traveling around 250 mpg, while the C5 looked like is was traveling so slow that it might fall from the sky.

The contrast between the C5 and the smaller chase plane was staggering.

I wish I could go back.

[kob3bryant8]

Beautiful video. I love the music.

[buffan34]

excellent video,thanks

[IdolHans]

@doogie1136 I was just a young punk hippie living overseas when I saw the headline in the Stars and Stripes. That same headline repeated itself a few times---The C5 crash at Sherman Williams Oklahoma (wheel well fuselage fire), the 1975 crash in Vietnam, and later the crash of 68228 over at Ramstein Germany and the crash of a B model at Dover in 2005 (see youtube video on that one).

[IdolHans]

@JessimaeAlice God bless you and may God help you! Hopefully the whole fleet will get CF-6-80's to replace those pain in the ass TF39's! Don't worry----I changed a lot of cold section accessories, cowl doors, inlet rings, lots of bleed air, fuel and oil leaks.