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Need to paint it like Orca - looks just like 'im!
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Every Airbus is delivered on the wings of a Boeing, but Airbus made that one.Banjo said:
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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.
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.
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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
After a very simple Google search...
https://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/Guppy/index.html
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3798j said:What a neat but strange looking aircraft.
Could this have been its grandfather?
A golden photo op if ever there was one!
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Silverghost said:3798j said: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?