Now that is some horsepower....
 

the New C-5M doing a max power takeoff at over 500,000 pounds....and only using 1800 feet of runway. Gotta love bigger engines! Eat your heart out fighter pukes, an F-15 can't do that....


Of course there is still the problem of the zoomy little brother to deal with on the hot rod scale....

impressive, with only that little of runway

Navy got it beat with a c-130 takeoff from a carrier fully loaded too!
an even shorter takeoff is possible with JATO rockets installed btw.
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Sorry Dawg, the 130 was empty for the carrier landing and the new J model can take off in less runway then JATO assisted H's, but it isn't going to do it at the kind of weights the other 2 do. The Navy shortly after realized it was also a retarded idea because there isn't room for many aircraft on the carrier if you want to turn a C-130 around

Also C-130J max takeoff weight is 170,000 pounds and needs 2300 feet of runway to do it
C-17 Max take off weight is 585,000 pounds and it uses 4200 feet of runway to do it
C-5M Max take off weight is 840,000 pounds and it needs 4900 feet of runway to do it

those numbers are based on a good day at an average altitude, so they are really apples and oranges. However compare the new C-5M to say one of our C-5A's that at 840,000 would need about 11,000 feet of runway and the difference becomes pretty clear

No matter how you slice it, I think it is impressive

Nice! As usual Dawg is trying to one upmanship everybody! lol

well since we can stuff a C-130 inside a C-5, I'd say he is SOL

Thats amazing

pshh my cars got more horsepower than that!!!!... no where near as much THRUST tho hahaha

True there is no direct correlation between horsepower and thrust, but some creative math a good "wag" is 1.5HP=1 pound of thrust at 560MPH, so at 560MPH the C-5M is making roughly the equivalent of 318,000HP. That's a bunch :)

Woza, Impressive!