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I get to see this one up close at most of the Houston airshows where it is permanently assigned for NASA missions...It was built from a late 40's era Boeing 377 airframe, which was developed from the WWII military C-97 cargo plane, which in turn was designed from the Boeing B-29 bomber...The Guppy was refitted with upgraded turboprop engines...The video is from last month in Ohio picking up some bits and pieces for the Orion spacecraft......Ben
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Impressive
Here are two similar craft from Airbus for their own use.
I have seen these in Hamburg. They use them to fly big sub-assemblies in to Hamburg for the final assembly. Since they have killed the A380 program I am not sure if these will be needed any longer.
Last edited by Dave Grubb; 04-02-2020 at 12:31 PM.
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Very cool. I'd like to see those planes in person someday.
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Had no inkling the platform for that ungangly thing was 70 years old. With the load it carries that has to be a lot of stress on the old metal in those wings.
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