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Very cool. Saw it at the airshow last weekend. Do you work for NASA?

 

Yes I do out at Ellington.

 

awesome...there's one on display (public) in the UK at Bruntingthorpe.

 

When does it give birth ?

 

You could buy that to haul your cars around.

There was a transport built for NASA called the pregnant guppy.

Aero Spacelines Pregnant Guppy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Very cool. Is it true tge NASA U2 has stopped at Ellington a few times? I love Ellington there always seems to be something cool. Are they flying the predators out of Ellington?

 

That sure looks a bit different than the original KC-97's on which I worked in 1951 at Renton. The best thing that ever happened to that airplane was the installation of gas turbine engines. Still a best.

 

What do you do at work?

 

The plane pictured above is basically the same plane but a later version with turboprops.

Called the 'Super Guppy'.


There was also a Mini-Guppy that was a little smaller.

And they were not just built for NASA... even AirBus bought one.

 

Airbus actually bought several, all of the available Super Guppies, in fact. I believe that the engines and nacelles were identical to those on the Lockheed Electra and thus similar to those on the Orion.

 

Here's a good short article w/ Pics on the Super Guppy.

This Super-Sized Cargo Plane Carries NASA's Largest And Most Precious Equipment - Business Insider

 

I should have said, " Still a beast." I know guys who flew them in the military and for Northwest Airlines and that took a full flight deck and some hard working flight engineers and sharp pilots to keep it in the air. Complex, complicated, and contrary.

 

A friend of mine owns the Mini Guppy.

 

Yes it is true is comes out every now and then but its called an E2

 

Im the Maintenance Manager for the G-III and C-9 here at NASA.