Video shows how enormous C-5 Galaxy’s 28-wheel landing gear system works

December 17, 2013 Military Aviation

David Cenciotti

The huge C-5 Galaxy features a unique tricycle-type landing gear system consisting of a total of 28 wheels.

As already explained, this fine piece of machinery is made of four main units fitted in tandem pairs, each with a six-wheel bogie with two forward and four rear wheels.

The Main Landing Gear rotates 90 degrees horizontally to be accomodated inside the gear bays when retracted after take off; futhermore, it is steerable for a 20 degrees left or right for crosswind landings.

Post by Westover Air Reserve Base.

About David Cenciotti

David Cenciotti is a journalist based in Rome, Italy. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviationist”, one of the world’s most famous and read military aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for major worldwide magazines, including Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, and many others, covering aviation, defense, war, industry, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown several combat planes with different air forces. He is a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Force, a private pilot and a graduate in Computer Engineering. He has written five books and contributed to many more ones.