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Papabear, the C5 in that video is a repowered B model. The company that I work for makes the engines and nacelle for it. The older A model used an engine called the TF-39, rather old tech as compared to what's available today. The repower transplants the commercial CF6-80C engine which has a...

That must be flight test #1 with the GE CF6-80C2 engines. The entire C5B fleet is supposed to get glass cockpits and GE-80C engines. The C5a's are going to use the spare engines from the B models until 2016 when they have an appointment with the scrapper. The new model designation is C-5M...