PACIFIC OCEAN (Jan. 27, 2015) Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Equipment) Airman Willtavius Ward and Airman Wyatt Steen guide an arresting gear wire into postition on the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74).

Putting together the C-5 Galaxy, one of the world’s largest aircraft, at a Lockheed plant in Marietta, Ga., in October 1969. On Dec. 18 of that year, The Times announced that this “controversial C-5 transport, with a cargo area longer than the flight by the Wright Brothers’ tiny plane 66 years ago, was formally turned over to the Air Force today on the anniversary of powered flight.” Photo: George Tames/The New York Times