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NASA’s giant ‘Super Guppy’ plane delivers the agency’s spacecraft to Ohio
Transporting a large space capsule around Earth can be a daunting process, but NASA has its own various equipment for such jobs — one of which is a very big plane with a very big belly. Known as the “Super Guppy,” NASA’s cavernous plane is capable of carrying large loads from point A to point B, and the aircraft just transported the space agency’s next-generation passenger spacecraft to Ohio for a round of testing. (www.theverge.com) More...
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Love how the plane looks. It's just so striking.
Stopped over @ Ft. Campbell Army Airfield, KY for refueling
N941NA is the only Super Guppy operating. Their function has been replaced by the Beluga.
Think that is for Airbus use only and if they had been replaced then why was this one used?
Read a piece about them but found an item wrong as the turbine was not built in 65 by Conroy it was a few years later right about 70 and used Electra engines from a retired one. Also Jack had on the drawing boards plans to use retired B52 wings on an even larger version. And a side note about Jack he had a Corsair sitting on the ramp he got for some unpaid work.
