AMERICA'S NEWEST AIR WEAPON - THE C-5A - Charles V Dorothy & Lynn E Torrance - April 1968

Charles V Dorothy & Lynn E Torrance

Read this eyewitness report about the startling meaning behind America's newest air weapon - and the world's largest air plane - the C-5A. Marietta, Georgia. The U.S. does it again! American ingenuity has built the world's largest airplane, the C-5A Galaxy. Far wider than a football field, America's gleaming metal giant spans 222.7 feet, and stretches 245.9 feet from nose to tail. It's longer than twelve Cadillac's bumper to bumper. The tail juts six stories high. Hard to believe that 728, 000 pounds can fly! But fly it shall! The C-5A "will...make its first flight in June, 1968." according to the Lockheed Southern Star of December 6, 1967. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library