The Amazing Engineering Behind the Super Galaxy Plane | Richard Hammond's Big

Richard climbs inside the US Air Force's biggest cargo plane: the C-5M Super Galaxy, and explains why this plane is so powerful and revolutionary.
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[@BON3SMcCOY]

James May would have been drooling over the technical specs of that engine

[@jonhorskey4600]

If James may had to service that engine it would take 30 years. 10 years to organize the spanners and 8 years to read the manual and 12 years for the service.

[@jarnom85]

James May would be talking about every part of the engine in so extreme detail that it would take 100 years for him to explain how it works.

[@kronk358]

May, would, might... whatever.

[@gameking4984]

Clarkson would be hitting it with a hammer

[@Jack-ys2qj]

Richard hammond walking on the wing of a cessna 172 at 0:06 is pretty cool

[@tlshortyshorty5810]

Lol nice I think it’s closer to one of those ultralight trikes

[@ImaSneke]

That's actually just the wing of a spitfire.

[@pixzlon2065]

Look even closer, it is a parachute

[@greek9244]

That’s not a cessna plane- cessnas are Wayyyy smaller 😭

[@tlshortyshorty5810]

@@greek9244 r/whooosh

[@bamboozledbob3298]

1:17 You know, this kinda goes for every aircraft, regardless of it's size.

[@stinchjack]

On tonight's episode of Top Gear, Richard talks to a man, Richard stands by a plane, and Richard wears a hat

[@mamons_2339]

And hammond make a dent on a huge plane.

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[@greek9244]

I can just hear clarksons voice reading this

[@Akhil-qz9xu]

lol so true

[@Soulessdeeds]

They should have shown that the planes can carry tanks, two of them I believe and then some. I got a ride in a Galaxy during one of my tours over in Iraq. The inside of the plane is like walking into a High School basketball court. The space inside is incredible.

[@justaguy6100]

Richard, you're a treasure. As is the rest of the original and best Top Gear crew. You may have replacements, but never successors.

[@kylesanders8276]

This has the most asmr tapping of any episode

[@TuffBurnOutTeam]

Gee awesome development on those jet engines Thank you for Sharing Australia 🌏

[@munozinni]

I love the sound of those engines I live next of a military base and every time I hear that sound I know for sure it’s the mighty C-5Galaxy…

[@fxshlein]

6:03 come on, we both know how this thing can get up the hill much faster... 😄

[@Linsjb]

Go Gadget go!

[@schwarzwolfram7925]

Unfortunately, it's pointed the wrong way. But if you ever wanted to go 300 mph in reverse, there you go.

[@fxshlein]

@@schwarzwolfram7925 Yeah or like.. turn it around? xD

[@catsndogs98]

Hammond bringing back the og content

[@kealanmeylertaylor9510]

Love all of the vids 🙏🙏

[@VanquisherVIII]

When I was younger my dad took my to a Tennessee Titans football game. The flyover was a galaxy and it was one of the coolest things I've ever seen. These things are HUGE.

[@executeorder6959]

Come on guys we all know that is just a toy plane he is just small

[@icolby8700]

Best comment

[@rayyansaadabbasi5952]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@godzilko]

This guy is the epitome of a Narrator

[@airashkiran4376]

❤️❤️❤️ beautiful video ❤️❤️❤️

[@jonnnyren6245]

Harks back to the Airbus A380 on Engineering Connections in his Discovery Channel days.

[@VirtanenDK]

12 years had the engine been on the plane 😳 12 years with landings, take-off, any type of weather, and we just jump into them and fly on holiday.... That's pretty amazing 👏

[@alanboyce7109]

The bypass air creates a tube of air that directs thrust. He forgot to mention that.

[@adnanadil6728]

Nice

[@badcosmonaut]

Great content 😃

[@marvelgoh5648]

Hammond make a SR-22 looks like a C-5. Imagine what it would look like if he's on an actual C-5

[@Thatit777]

Funny how every time they made a video and Hammond goes inside a room or any place, he looks really really tinny 😅🤷‍♂️

[@4rct1c9Ic3m4n]

6:49 Dyno tuning

[@mytech6779]

The C-5 was a horrible boondoggle of a project, over budget, behind schedule, and under performing. (Part of this was on congress and DOD, not just Lockheed) The C-5 max normal-service load was reduced by a third in the late 70s because of major fatigue issue in the primary frame. (they can still use original design load for emergency service but then need more inspecting and have reductions in service life) The c-17 is a much better plane, the C-5 is retained only as a reserve for use with over-sized cargo, if they can use two C-17s instead of one C-5 they will just to keep the hours low on the remaining C-5 fleet.

[@ianmontgomery7534]

I can remember when the first two centre fuselages for F/A18 production arrived at Avalon in a C5 back in the 1980'3. It is an imposing beasty of an aircraft. i remember the loadmaster asking how high we wanted the aircraft to enable unloading. We said said leave it where it is as our unloader was adjustable for height. It was the first one the loadmaster had seen and we had borrowed it off Qantas.

[@user-wt8wc1fi1b]

Me too

[@ChrisWashburn]

Brit, on Aus TV, filming US Military planes.

[@ianmontgomery7534]

I must admit I was impressed the first time I saw the honeycomb aluminium and carbon fibre being cut with a water jet!

[@shahriarfardin777]

Entire engine following Bernoulli's principal In the wind tunnel

[@justinwilliam4644]

Just thinking how out of date this would be if they reverse engineer anti gravity

[@jeremykevinjoo2953]

It think the bypass will create cooling and more coling from the frezzeing in the cruing alt

[@steveninabnet156]

So.. no one is going to tell him his hard hat is backwards? Lol

[@BowfortheMad]

Sabulba is not gonna appreciate his pod racer being out of commission for 90 days

[@aashiqalikhokhar2068]

Amening

[@CatatonicImperfect]

the next revolution (he) being geared turbo fans, where the core can run at higher rpms than the fan in front.

[@airtexaco]

Fritz I work for the company that makes the only geared turbo fan engine. I asked if we were going to venture into the heavy aircraft game and the answer was no. There are far more single aisle planes sold and is more profitable. Hope that changes.

[@rasserg2858]

The engine looks like an engine on a Podracer from Star Wars

[@asimjan438]

How can find full series of this doc

[@Lex-of2wo]

vpn to Australia and watch on Discovery. Or be a pirate. Your choice.

[@weeeeelad]

Steve looking like the guy from dodgeball

[@7volcast]

Broooo😂🤣

[@gohumberto]

I loved him in The Hobbit.

[@michaelpugh2617]

Why is discovery Australia doing a piece on us military equipment? Is it like how discovery in the us focuses on other places in the world

[@BigTYTtv]

Because it's interesting?

[@gwigna]

I think it was just aired and/or uploaded by them but probably made in Britain or the U S

[@gooddypm]

Richard Hammond, with the Air Force of his adopted country.

[@moonliteX]

c-130 hercules super galaxy is what i'm going to name my cane corso.

[@SenpaiDelta11B]

Its called a turbo fan engine jet engines have afterburners

[@edwinshelly993]

I really loved this subject in Engineering, but I did bad due to circumstances 😒 I wonder if i can get back to the field again?

[@royvicente93]

First cuz the first guy said firat

[@Jamikeus]

6:09 that whirlpool or winds logo? They the ones pulling the strings?!?

[@gnranger]

the logos on the buildings?

[@Jamikeus]

@@gnranger yes

[@gnranger]

@@Jamikeus that would be the General Electric Logo

[@neilsheppard6673]

Imagine an "Ambitious but Rubbish" project, where Clarkson, Hammond and May attempt to design and build their own version of a high thrust turbo fan jet engine 😐

[@n1troni]

they did make a rocket

[@zevfeitelson]

Hexagon is bestagon

[@lemedico]

Why's Hammond wearing safety goggles in the GE jet engine computer control room!?

[@TRiX_ONE]

😄 Safety firtst! 😊

[@KingIjazMalik]

@@TRiX_ONE His Choice

[@thusharikabotheju5655]

Hamster ape and captain slow

[@deth3021]

Pretty sire that high bypass engines was a result of nasa jpl research, not ge

[@jayflow7949]

A cars Catalytic converter is a honeycomb a foot long but has the surface area of a football field

[@brassicaolaraceaolaracea1115]

SOMEBODY MAKE HIM STAND INSIDE THE GE9x PLLLEEEASE.....

[@HJ-zn5go]

6:09 what logo is that on the building? plz help

[@a1bc095]

General Electric

[@HJ-zn5go]

@@a1bc095 ty kind sir, I thought it was kellogg's

[@_Justnoble__]

“Americans just know big heavy and muscle”

[@skevvolsnurf3317]

Fith

[@gtlegacy8]

this is actually just a toy model plane being tested in a small shed.

[@CatatonicImperfect]

i realized this when i saw hammond next to it for scale

[@UncleKennysPlace]

Ha, they show the new 9X engine being tested. That project is my day job.

[@beautybarconn]

Can you tell me more?

[@sperera5916]

Is he hosting the show because he is famous or because he has engineering knowledge?

[@daveanxious]

Because he knows how to present .

[@Redacted341]

Man James mat and Hammond made a series, what happened to Jeremy

[@sputnikfreshie3601]

Becoma a farmer?

[@Redacted341]

@@sputnikfreshie3601 but did he make a series about it, thats the question

[@shaiksfq6691]

"42 tons of Air ", How can air be weighed or measured ? Pls don't crucify me ,I'm not a science guy.

[@uweinhamburg]

The easiest way to weigh air is really simple. You take a gas bottle (like the ones for a camping cooker) fill it with air (just let the valve open), close the valve and then weigh the gas bottle. Then you pump out the air, close the valve and weigh it again. The difference is the air that you have pumped out. You can measure the volume of the gas bottle and there you have the weight of air per liter. Under normal pressure and temperatures air weighs around 1.2g. First measurements with that methods are from ~1650

[@Kyle-wk4wj]

I know for gods sake scaffolding can be cheaper than 9 mil.

[@jimsound7888]

didnt rolls royce first develope the bypass engine?

[@Crazy--Clown]

RR = Rotating Rubbish

[@SA-5247]

They should’ve shown the strike testing with frozen turkeys lol search it..

[@mercerconsulting9728]

BTW, the turbofan concept was invented by a Russian engineer in 1949.

[@whohonestlycares700]

Called sheet metal engineers lol

[@randomrangoon5476]

Is it just me or does the host kind of look like an English Al Pacino

[@jeremytheimer7443]

that's not a plane that's a planet.

[@platin2148]

Can one buy these honey comb aluminum sheets? Guess not..

[@Crazy--Clown]

Hardware Stores

[@mfree80286]

All day long, check amazon. Nothing special about it today.

[@rizqirizaldo]

What kind of Samsung product is this

[@AGamer075]

What

[@chloehennessey6813]

If they paid that much for that tiny amount of scaffolding? Someone got their pockets lined. I’ve seen skyscrapers done for that much. Effin government.

[@williamscurr8174]

Why does it look like stewie in the corner on the thumbnail

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Firat

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Its funny how he crashges a car in top gear and ground tour but not in this

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When will we all start spelling and pronouncing aluminum the same? Haha