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The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy is a large, wide-bodied cargo aircraft that is used for hauling outsize cargo components. It was the successor to the Pregnant Guppy, the first of the Guppy aircraft produced by Aero Spacelines. Five were built in two variants, both of which were colloquially referred to as the "Super Guppy".
Before there was the Beluga XL transporter airplane, there was the Super Guppy, a bizarre-looking NASA airplane resembling a bloated fish that has earned a cult following among planespotters as...
Summary: The Aero Spacelines Guppy, an oddly-shaped cargo plane, played a crucial role in the Space Race by transporting rocket parts across the United States, significantly reducing...
Jan 17, 2017 · Meet the Guppy and the Largest Aircraft in the World. It is the ugliest, yet most useful plane in NASA’s fleet. Though it looks more like a massive fish than an aircraft, the Guppy is used to...
Dec 17, 2018 · While the C-5 Galaxy (also a badass plane) can carry four times more weight at over 200,000 lbs., the Super Guppy wins by volume. Its payload bay is 25-feet high, 25-feet wide, and 111-feet...
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Dec 12, 2014 · The Super Guppy, which is based at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, carried the 30-foot (9.14 meters) wide, 10,000-pound (4,536 kilograms) composite, double deck multi-bay box from Long Beach, California, to Virginia so researchers can bend, pressurize and eventually break it.
Jul 25, 2023 · On July 20, 1969, the first human being set foot on the moon. It never would have happened without the assistance of NASA's Super Guppy. The turboprop-powered aircraft was designed in the 1960s...
