🛩️ Do You Know? – C-5 Galaxy Edition 🇺🇸 "The best seat in the house"... might just be inside the C-5 Galaxy’s flight deck — located three stories above the ground! The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, one of the largest military transport aircraft in the world, stands so tall that its cockpit sits 30 feet above the ground — about the height of a 3-story building! Ground crews even need a special ladder just to reach the crew entry door. This beast can carry two M1 Abrams tanks, six Apache helicopters, or

For decades the C-5 Galaxy has been a giant among U.S. Air Force cargo planes, but its original design had a catastrophic flaw. Learn how the C-5's future was saved Sunday at 9 on a new episode of Inside Mighty Machines. http://bit.ly/2JiTXpg | Smithsonian Channel