The Engineering Behind The Super Galaxy Military Transport Plane Explained | Richard Hammond’s Big

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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[@user_name35tdekb4]

If Richard Hammond's in it, or any of the trio, for that matter, I'm watching it for sure

[@peter-radiantpipes2800]

Yup. Didn’t hesitate

[@englishbob5106]

Sad

[@MiracleBro605]

@@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

[@neovo903]

@@englishbob5106 I know you are, but what am I?

[@AfifShahSadipSeven]

Can't agree more on that.

[@captaincoffeecake3595]

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 ...

[@DF.NickFury]

Richard Hammond: "Humanitarian Assets" US Military: Apache Helicopters

[@Definitely-not-the-FBI]

Hey I need a lift occasionally too!

[@MystoganKD3364]

@@Definitely-not-the-FBI Lmao 🤣🤣🤣

[@zeromegalez5670]

@@Definitely-not-the-FBI lol😂

[@firstlast9731]

@@Definitely-not-the-FBI lol sup apache

[@Zeigler_]

Apache's are humanitarian when looked in the right way

[@Stevie8654]

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.

[@doncorleon9]

Rich is a yank at heart. He must have loved this!

[@rizzorizzo2311]

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.

[@collins9708]

Figures they picked the shortest guys to make the plane look bigger

[@antr7493]

Would to love to see James or Jezza try to get into the hayloft.

[@EddieBurke]

Doesn’t take away that this plane is fucking enormous

[@aacksonm7340]

Hammond is an excellent presenter...

[@bruperina]

As well as an organ.

[@peterabnormal327]

This is fantastic a love the way the little man explains. Things to perfection so every audience can understand fantastic Richard !!!

[@thomasnorton5086]

Awesome. Thank you for this tour of the C5. I have walked through this aircraft at air shows.

[@xtraspecialmango]

"...Wherever you land, pretty much everyone is glad to see you..." I don't think the Vietnamese, would be in that camp!!

[@Laura-wc5xt]

especially the babies who died when one crashed on takeoff

[@Karuiko]

Depends on which Vietnamese.

[@captainCaybrew]

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

[@andrewdoesyt7787]

@@captainCaybrew Why do the owners scare you? There only there to help people!

[@captainCaybrew]

@@andrewdoesyt7787 tell that to the innocent people killed every day by the US army

[@NefastusJones]

The nose opening at the front of the aircraft weighs 3.3 tons, people. Do pay attention.

[@thegamingwubba]

Thank you for this

[@nicholasdelporto3930]

It feels a lot different when you see it open in person

[@rixille]

@@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.

[@calvin89calvin89calv]

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.

[@Ascertivus]

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!

[@nicholasdelporto3930]

I'm happy to work on these amazing aircraft

[@off_mah_lawn2074]

Okay Hammond is officially an honorary American

[@rixille]

I got to tour inside one of these many years ago, it takes being in person to really understand the scale of it.

[@javisrais4991]

I can confirm this plane is twice as big in person. It’s very huge.

[@AgentLTK]

I wanna see Richard Hammond react to the AN-225

[@DGeorge819]

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.

[@Skinny-it8hj]

Anyone else catch the C17 ? 3:05

[@64CSAR]

It’s an Air Force convoy, no ones gunna be alarmed... ever.. With love, your big bro - US Army

[@Blackairaviationofficial]

That Plane Is Giant And I Like The C-5 Super Galaxy Engine Sound

[@barrieliving]

How does this only have 14k views!!!!

[@craigrobertson909]

That plane is in fact regular size, it jusy appears huge next to Richard Hammond

[@rixille]

Funny joke, but believe me even a 7 foot tall guy will feel like a dwarf in that thing.

[@aultmanfilms4590]

3:30 this is an excellent question you should be asking to a veteran or someone actively serving

[@isaachauzel149]

Tyrese: It's a freaking spaceship!!!

[@chandbasha606]

Sir thanks for giving excellent information

[@gumelargungun8774]

8:42 and that's why it calles "Turbofan engine", unlike the old turbojet engine....it is more efficient, reliable and Low cost engine

[@davyroyer6573]

Richard, you lucky chap!!!!!! I hope one day i get to meet you, may, and clarkson

[@candlestyx8517]

A week of maintenance for every hour of air time. That blows my mind more than the plane itself

[@Cramblit]

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.

[@candlestyx8517]

@@Cramblit That makes more sense, thank you for breaking it down.

[@phillippeterman1051]

Considering I worked and flew on this plane for 28 years I found this video pretty campy!

[@trippstewartm4a1]

I didn't realize the turbofan was such a crazy new concept

[@eddieeaston791]

It was when the C-5 was first built

[@cefb8923]

@@eddieeaston791 CF6 was the first turbofan ever and it was developed for the C5.

[@SomebodysNephew]

I love David Hammond. He's big in every way except size.

[@TheAnonymous1one]

Video ends right when it was getting interesting!

[@wanchopok]

I really like Richard 😀

[@rayjames6096]

They do practice touch and go's at the military airport a few miles from my mother's house in TX often.

[@Thehermderm]

I was a load cpt at fedex for 2 years weight an balance was one of the most important jobs

[@edttt4491]

It's amazing what the military can create.

[@mikerice5298]

The people they create for the military

[@SaidBKD95]

Well giving that funding they have...

[@ichbindoofhihi1]

7:15 "it is, when I am working on it" 🥶🥶🥶

[@MrMusic-ob2jj]

I love this

[@stradivarioushardhiantz5179]

If the C-5M re-engined with GEnx-2B...this would have heavier payload 🛫🤓

[@EstorilEm]

@@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).

[@chloetangpongprush3519]

3:05 wait a second... That's not a C5, tha's a C17!

[@crosscheck8770]

No it isn’t. The nose of a C-17 doesn’t open like that.

[@awg6397]

@@crosscheck8770 they show a C-17 for a quick second, loading up an Apache. Look at the winglets

[@ivanleonhart3466]

@@crosscheck8770 3:06-3:07 are shots of a C-17

[@LuchtLeiderNederland]

@@ivanleonhart3466 And just a few seconds after there’s a C-141 Starlifter

[@moogle68]

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.

[@karenmarsh1067]

0:55 that takeoff is extremely short It’s jaw dropping

[@iBlooket]

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

[@coughingpenguin4346]

nice intro

[@antr7493]

Would to love to see James or Jezza try to get into the hay loft.

[@TheWallace777]

I get these flying over my house everydsy

[@nunyabusiness4682]

Did I miss hear that guy or did he say it ways 3.3 tonnes? So like 3 VW golfs?

[@chrisdawson9312]

i heard that too, i did the math and according to my remedial level calculations, its closer to 190 tons

[@Db1ntegra]

They are referring to the visor weight. (The visor is the name of the nose cargo door of the aircraft)

[@investorxrp7492]

Searching the comment section to see if anybody else caught that he said 3.3 tons 😂😂😂

[@f581474x]

Will it be possible to fit 4 GE-9X engines to it?

[@TheFS2004guru]

The planes just got re-engined with GE CF-6s

[@moh8483]

3.3 tons so I could lift it with a trolly jack and put it on basic axel stands

[@Db1ntegra]

They are referring to the visor weight. (The visor is the name of the nose cargo door of the aircraft)

[@thariqthassim820]

Anything close to Hammond will look huge

[@chloewebb7626]

How come they showed a c17 with a tank coming out of it 🤔

[@theminerbay9801]

Hammond is the first reason to watching this

[@rosselliot8971]

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.

[@shona5512]

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.

[@rosselliot8971]

@@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.

[@ScottRothsroth0616]

Timestamp 5:40, looks like a blackbox.

[@offended9081]

Nah that’s just a beacon so they can find the wreckage, it doesn’t have anything to do with the black box

[@ScottRothsroth0616]

@@offended9081 So it’s an Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT)/Emergency Locator Beacon (ELB), in a shell of a black box?

[@comradeclaus]

@@ScottRothsroth0616 likely yea, because the black box shells are very durable and they want to keep that thing functioning.

[@Darkstar22177]

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

[@RealPlatoishere]

Why he lookes hugh jackman in some angles, but 10 years older.....😂

[@dylanzwering2255]

You know the space in the tail is actually small when they use Richard Hammond

[@max-packages3276]

Super Hammond's 🙃 (Birmingham)❤

[@A.R.C.77]

People that pack food at checkouts should watch and learn

[@meditatewithme6254]

Go watch Antoniv AN-225 Mriya

[@jonruehle9186]

42 tons of air is a little over 1 million cubic feet per minute (CFM).

[@khlschool4282]

0:32 What I saw is a toad with 2 wings, and blades

[@ColonelFrontline1152]

0:03 0:03 0:03

[@Chris-vs4wt]

They should put a basketball hoop in there and have a basketball game in the sky

[@shaneloughran2304]

Man like Fred you know.

[@K-Effect]

It would make a great house if you could buy a retired fuselage. On a nice day you could open up the whole house

[@moogle68]

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" 😂😂

[@K-Effect]

@@moogle68 I like the way you think

[@EnixForce]

It's just Richard standing in a small cargo plane

[@patton303]

This just makes me furious that the Russians destroyed the AN-225.

[@Sierraomega1991]

Imagine this being may

[@enrich-mf7gg]

The part when a guy is outside the plane then hears richard shouting in the cargo hold of the plane 😂😂😂😂

[@piercemccauley7079]

i wish all those humvees would go in my rear

[@VanceRefrigeration]

3.3 tons is quite light for a plane that size

[@whoameye2u]

Everything American is legendary, how cute!.

[@GamingGymnasts]

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

[@leweee]

It weighs a lot more than 3 tonnes although I did hear him say that

[@leweee]

I just searched it up and it weighs 172 tonnes

[@GamingGymnasts]

@@leweee I wonder why he said 3 tonnes then. Cos I swear he did defiantly say it’s three tonnes 😅

[@gwentcarsalesltd3305]

@@GamingGymnasts it looked like he was referring to the front end that was raising weighed 3 tonnes.

[@Db1ntegra]

They are referring to the visor weight. (The visor is the name of the nose cargo door of the aircraft)

[@jasongates6894]

Wait so these things can only fly 50ish hours a year?

[@rashidabdul5429]

Damn 60s technology.

[@eldar550]

Antonov 225? which one is better ?

[@hydrochloricacid2146]

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).

[@Mark-uk8wz]

I'd like to see Clarkson try and fit into that plane

[@rixille]

Trust me, he most definitely can

[@bodhigilroy]

Hammond: You Could Fit Eleven Blue Whales! Japanese “Research” Sign Us Up!

[@mrfuzzerkins4170]

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

[@ghost.patrols]

You could turn that thing into a mansion lmao

[@mattslegochannel]

A plane in a plane

[@lordsteppergod7269]

It can hold hundreds of soldiers ready to deploy for war

[@joeyfreitas1942]

I think that weight at the beginning ought be a little off lol

[@hilmimulyasetiawan2326]

Liam Neeson and Robert Downer Jr. 8:00

[@jonnnyren6245]

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. 🤣🤣

[@tomsamuelson8512]

At 3:55 that is not a C5M.....

[@davedenham8697]

Or actually weighs 14 tons less than an A380...

[@nutdeach]

The plan is so big that makes Hammond looks like a hamster

[@marciofilho3629]

So it's a propeler combined with a combustion engine.

[@elevationsickness8462]

God listening to Richard Hammond talk about military aircraft is better than porn

[@NymbusCumulo928]

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.

[@thewizardofcroagz394]

Time to get the Blue Whales

[@smakkacowtherealone]

It's actually just a cessna, he's that short

[@specialfbiagent51]

who found the black box?

[@wagnerkerchaten]

Tony Stark does documentary when not shooting movie.

[@williamkent2446]

1:09 Did he say 3.3 tons? Because that's not true...or did he say 30.3?

[@lupe499]

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)

[@loganh2876]

i think he was talking about just the nose

[@lupe499]

@@loganh2876 i guess that makes more scens

[@jessebarbier1661]

They should make gunships of those kinde of planes

[@hydrochloricacid2146]

No point. Too large, too unwieldy, and too inneficient at low altitude. The C130 platform is more appropriate.