The Engineering Behind The Super Galaxy Military Transport Plane Explained | Richard Hammond’s Big
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- Опубліковано 26 січ 2021
- Richard Hammond explains the engineering behind the Super Galaxy military transport plane, including how its cargo is loaded, how it maintains stability in the air, as well as how the engines produce so much power.
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If Richard Hammond's in it, or any of the trio, for that matter, I'm watching it for sure
Yup. Didn’t hesitate
Sad
@@englishbob5106 yes, you are sad. Instead of moving on with your life, you decide to criticize 2 people who enjoy the content. get a life or seek a mental health expert. living through life miserably is no way to bee my gee
@@englishbob5106 I know you are, but what am I?
Can't agree more on that.
Richard Hammond: "Humanitarian Assets"
US Military: Apache Helicopters
Hey I need a lift occasionally too!
@@Definitely-not-the-FBI Lmao 🤣🤣🤣
@@Definitely-not-the-FBI lol😂
@@Definitely-not-the-FBI lol sup apache
Apache's are humanitarian when looked in the right way
Seriously Richard , James , and Jeremy have the best careers ever . It’s literally like every single job they wanted to have when the were kids they get to have now . Drive the worlds most exotic cars , dozens of actual adventures , architecture , archeology, etc ...
Figures they picked the shortest guys to make the plane look bigger
Would to love to see James or Jezza try to get into the hayloft.
Doesn’t take away that this plane is fucking enormous
I worked at an airline maintenance base and saw a few of those when the Air National Guard was deploying once. That and the Antonov were unbelievable.
Rich is a yank at heart.
He must have loved this!
Hammond is an excellent presenter...
As well as an organ.
The nose opening at the front of the aircraft weighs 3.3 tons, people. Do pay attention.
Thank you for this
It feels a lot different when you see it open in person
@@nicholasdelporto3930 You get it, I saw one in person and it's hard for people to really get that perspective of its mass from video.
Was on my way to NTC before my first deployment and our chartered DC10 parked next to one of these and it made our plane look like a single engine Cessna.
"...Wherever you land, pretty much everyone is glad to see you..."
I don't think the Vietnamese, would be in that camp!!
especially the babies who died when one crashed on takeoff
Depends on which Vietnamese.
Most of the world wouldn’t be happy to see it. I’d love to see the plane, it’s just the owners of the plane who scare me
@@captainCaybrew Why do the owners scare you? There only there to help people!
@@andrewdoesyt7787 tell that to the innocent people killed every day by the US army
At 3:39 the pilot/copilot has a patch that reads FRED. In the Air Force it means "F*cking Ridiculous Economic Disaster" because of the colossal amount of fuel it requires to feed that beast of an aircraft.
This is fantastic a love the way the little man explains. Things to perfection so every audience can understand fantastic Richard !!!
Okay Hammond is officially an honorary American
Awesome. Thank you for this tour of the C5. I have walked through this aircraft at air shows.
I can confirm this plane is twice as big in person. It’s very huge.
I'm happy to work on these amazing aircraft
Richard Hammond, Spokesperson for "We are going to free the shit out of you" Inc.
He's the Secret American, after all
"We're gonna knick your oil" inc
I wanna see Richard Hammond react to the AN-225
Sir thanks for giving excellent information
Anyone else catch the C17 ? 3:05
I never knew that the backs of these types of planes were hollow, nor did I know that the tail could be climbed into! Fascinating!
I got to tour inside one of these many years ago, it takes being in person to really understand the scale of it.
Ah, GE in Peebles, Ohio.. nestled away in the hills is an understatement. I live about 45 minutes from there. Neat to see them get a shoutout.
Tyrese: It's a freaking spaceship!!!
I love this
That Plane Is Giant And I Like The C-5 Super Galaxy Engine Sound
I really like Richard 😀
That plane is in fact regular size, it jusy appears huge next to Richard Hammond
Funny joke, but believe me even a 7 foot tall guy will feel like a dwarf in that thing.
How does this only have 14k views!!!!
7:15 "it is, when I am working on it" 🥶🥶🥶
It's amazing what the military can create.
The people they create for the military
Well giving that funding they have...
Considering I worked and flew on this plane for 28 years I found this video pretty campy!
It’s an Air Force convoy, no ones gunna be alarmed... ever..
With love, your big bro
- US Army
They do practice touch and go's at the military airport a few miles from my mother's house in TX often.
3:30 this is an excellent question you should be asking to a veteran or someone actively serving
I love David Hammond. He's big in every way except size.
Video ends right when it was getting interesting!
I was a load cpt at fedex for 2 years weight an balance was one of the most important jobs
I didn't realize the turbofan was such a crazy new concept
It was when the C-5 was first built
@@eddieeaston791 CF6 was the first turbofan ever and it was developed for the C5.
nice intro
3:05 wait a second...
That's not a C5, tha's a C17!
No it isn’t. The nose of a C-17 doesn’t open like that.
@@crosscheck8770 they show a C-17 for a quick second, loading up an Apache. Look at the winglets
@@crosscheck8770 3:06-3:07 are shots of a C-17
@@ivanleonhart3466 And just a few seconds after there’s a C-141 Starlifter
They were just showing examples of things that the plane can carry as cargo. The C17 is smaller, so it goes to reason that if it can carry X item, then so can the Super Galaxy. They probably just couldn't find enough photos or videos of the sort of cargo they wanted being loaded/unloaded and had to settle for something close. That, or the person editing/producing the film isn't specifically a massive airplane/military nut and didn't notice the slight differences since they are in the outer edges of the frame, so most people won't notice and I doubt anyone but you all really care.
8:42 and that's why it calles "Turbofan engine", unlike the old turbojet engine....it is more efficient, reliable and Low cost engine
Richard, you lucky chap!!!!!! I hope one day i get to meet you, may, and clarkson
Did I miss hear that guy or did he say it ways 3.3 tonnes? So like 3 VW golfs?
i heard that too, i did the math and according to my remedial level calculations, its closer to 190 tons
They are referring to the visor weight. (The visor is the name of the nose cargo door of the aircraft)
Searching the comment section to see if anybody else caught that he said 3.3 tons 😂😂😂
A week of maintenance for every hour of air time. That blows my mind more than the plane itself
It's a week of man hour maintenance for every hour of air time. They didn't really explain it that well. If you have 12 guys working maintenance on it, it could be just half a day of service. To give an example, but that adds up to a week of man hours.
@@Cramblit That makes more sense, thank you for breaking it down.
Would to love to see James or Jezza try to get into the hay loft.
0:55 that takeoff is extremely short
It’s jaw dropping
I get these flying over my house everydsy
Will it be possible to fit 4 GE-9X engines to it?
The planes just got re-engined with GE CF-6s
Why he lookes hugh jackman in some angles, but 10 years older.....😂
If the C-5M re-engined with GEnx-2B...this would have heavier payload 🛫🤓
@@gimmeaford9454 Eh kinda, but you see much higher payloads with the C-5M than the As. Usually they were performance limited in either runway length or fuel. Now you can trade 20% fuel weight for cargo in the same design (wing is lifting the same weight, it’s just different stuff).
Anything close to Hammond will look huge
I kept reading this title as “The Super Mario Galaxy Military Transport Plane” at least 4 times and was genuinely confused until I realized there was no Mario
3.3 tons so I could lift it with a trolly jack and put it on basic axel stands
They are referring to the visor weight. (The visor is the name of the nose cargo door of the aircraft)
Timestamp 5:40, looks like a blackbox.
Nah that’s just a beacon so they can find the wreckage, it doesn’t have anything to do with the black box
@@offended9081 So it’s an Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT)/Emergency Locator Beacon (ELB), in a shell of a black box?
@@ScottRothsroth0616 likely yea, because the black box shells are very durable and they want to keep that thing functioning.
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You know the space in the tail is actually small when they use Richard Hammond
A week's maintenance for every hour in the air? 4:22 That can't be right. That means a five hour flight across the US would require five weeks of maintenance downtime. A trip across the Pacific and back would require nearly six months downtime.
Bare in mind there are 22+ of these C5M Super Galaxies in service in the US Air Force. They use them in rotation so there are always a few of them at the ready at any given moment whilst others are undergoing inspections upon return from a flight.
@@shona5512 Have you done the math? A round trip to the Middle East takes 26 hours. That would mean a C5 could only make 2 trips to the Middle East (52 hours) before it was required to have 52 weeks maintenance.
An entire year of downtime to make two trips to, say, Iraq?
The C5 is used extensively and for very long flights. In order for the claimed maintenance requirements to be as we are told there would need to be a fleet of hundreds if not thousands of these planes.
3:38
Notice the pilot's patch on his arm: "FRED"
It stands for "Fucking Ridiculous Economic Disaster," which is the C5's nickname due to it's high fuel consumption, maintenance cost, and reliability issues
0:32 What I saw is a toad with 2 wings, and blades
42 tons of air is a little over 1 million cubic feet per minute (CFM).
Imagine this being may
Go watch Antoniv AN-225 Mriya
How come they showed a c17 with a tank coming out of it 🤔
People that pack food at checkouts should watch and learn
i wish all those humvees would go in my rear
yeahhhhhhllll
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I think that weight at the beginning ought be a little off lol
Man like Fred you know.
Where i live in canada we have the largest fleet of "little galaxy" planes its takes 2 normal galaxy to a super galaxy
They should put a basketball hoop in there and have a basketball game in the sky
Damn 60s technology.
3.3 tons is quite light for a plane that size
Hammond is the first reason to watching this
The part when a guy is outside the plane then hears richard shouting in the cargo hold of the plane 😂😂😂😂
A plane in a plane
The fact that the massive plane by itself is only 3tonnes. Theirs a lot of cars which weigh the same as that and they’re a fraction of the size
It weighs a lot more than 3 tonnes although I did hear him say that
I just searched it up and it weighs 172 tonnes
@@leweee I wonder why he said 3 tonnes then. Cos I swear he did defiantly say it’s three tonnes 😅
@@GamingGymnasts it looked like he was referring to the front end that was raising weighed 3 tonnes.
They are referring to the visor weight. (The visor is the name of the nose cargo door of the aircraft)
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Ram 🐏 POAT mmmmmmmmmmmmking?
you know those people who buy planes that are decomission or dont work and convert them into homes imaging someone or multiple people converting a C 5 galaxy if they go out of service
You could turn that thing into a mansion lmao
Liam Neeson and Robert Downer Jr. 8:00
It would make a great house if you could buy a retired fuselage. On a nice day you could open up the whole house
And, you'd be able to tell everyone at your local bar that your house is more aerodynamic than theirs, and/or that it was "designed in a wind tunnel" 😂😂
@@moogle68 I like the way you think
An225 was like : "yeah f@#k me"
At 3:55 that is not a C5M.....
Imagine if the Pentagon demanded a gunship version of this babe?
I mean if I see one or the B-1 or the F-15 in person I'd be a walking orgasmic waterfall. 🤣🤣
Wait so these things can only fly 50ish hours a year?
I got to fly in one for about an hour at a CAP summer camp, super cool.
The pilot must've been kind of a dick because he kept diving and climbing and tossing us around the plane. A couple people threw up but I clearly remember the strongest guys there couldnt do a pushup in the back when the plane was climbing.
Supposedly we went to 3-4 gs, but I doubt it.
Antonov 225? which one is better ?
Not comparable. The C5 was always meant as as a cargo aircraft, while the A225 wasn't... It sort of just fell into that role after the USSR fell.
It's larger for sure, but not necessarily "better" depending on what you're trying to do (which is why it's only used when *nothing* else will do).
Time to get the Blue Whales
Hammond: You Could Fit Eleven Blue Whales!
Japanese “Research” Sign Us Up!
I'd like to see Clarkson try and fit into that plane
Trust me, he most definitely can
Everything American is legendary, how cute!.
1:09 Did he say 3.3 tons? Because that's not true...or did he say 30.3?
So it's a propeler combined with a combustion engine.
Mm Should try fit it with euro gas,
They should make gunships of those kinde of planes
No point. Too large, too unwieldy, and too inneficient at low altitude. The C130 platform is more appropriate.
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1:10 did this guy just say "this weighs 3.3 tons"? cus I might just be dumb but that makes it sound as if 2 teslas weigh more than this. (I know it weighs 128.1 tons but the guy working with it said something else)
i think he was talking about just the nose
@@loganh2876 i guess that makes more scens
Or actually weighs 14 tons less than an A380...
God listening to Richard Hammond talk about military aircraft is better than porn