Please place small Items under your seat .

[texas_bugeye]

I saw this bad boy In ElPaso. NASA no tail number number? what the heck do they use it for. Should be part of American Airlines fleet I would save A bundle in check baggage fees.

 

[Mickey Richaud]

Need to paint it like Orca - looks just like 'im!

 

[Banjo]

That's where baby planes come from.....

 

[JPSmit]

That's where baby planes come from.....

any minute now apparently

 

[14dna]

So what your sayin' is, it's goin' on "Maternity Leave"

:laugh: Dave

 

[racingenglishcars]

That's where baby planes come from.....

Every Airbus is delivered on the wings of a Boeing, but Airbus made that one.

 

[Twosheds]

To move bulky loads. Parts of rockets.

Started with the Guppy, a modified C-97. Then the Super Guppy. The one in your photo has turboprops instead of R-4360 radials, so it's probably the Super Guppy. Didn't know they still use it!

Airbus modified some turbine-powered ships to move big parts, too.

 

[swift6]

That looks like a NASA plane I saw once in Cheyenne (Wyoming) in the early 1980's. Then, it was called "The Guppy". The front end, with the cockpit swings away and it is loaded from the front. When it was in Cheyenne, they loaded a C-130 fuselage into it. Not sure where it was going though. Watching it take off, you were definitely left with the impression that NASA truly could make just about anything fly.

After a very simple Google search...
https://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/Guppy/index.html

 

[3798j]

What a neat but strange looking aircraft.
Could this have been its grandfather?

 

[JPSmit]

I love that picture! love the plane. love the car, love that the plane looks so happy to be swallowing the car. thanks

 

[Silverghost]

What a neat but strange looking aircraft.
Could this have been its grandfather?

A golden photo op if ever there was one!

 

[DNK]

This is what Boeing uses to move the 87 parts around.

 

[rlwhitetr3b]

What a neat but strange looking aircraft.
Could this have been its grandfather?

A golden photo op if ever there was one!

Are you sure it isn't a silver one?