It's the biggest jet ever and I'd love to see it. Lots of amateur observers will say it looks slow, lumbering, or even "shaky" and "unstable". The fact is that your perception of how fast an airplane looks has to do with how many fuselage lengths it covers in a given period. A small jet going exactly the same speed as a superjumbo will always appear to be going much faster.
The freight version will gross at more than 1.3 million pounds-- a wonder of engineering.
I concur... Ever watch a C-5 in flight?
How does this compare with some of the large Soviet Union transports. I understand there was some hair splitting about how much weight you could take off with vice how much you could fly with etc.
I would like to know. The Spruce Goose was the largest plane wasn't it?
The first time a saw a C-5 take off, I had the same gut reaction. "No way that thing just took off going that slow." The size is truly staggering, and is very deceptive when seen near objects on the ground in regards to it's speed.