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  1. jcurry

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    #2 SVCalifornia, Jul 20, 2018
    A whale of a plane!

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  3. LBBP

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    #3 LBBP, Jul 21, 2018
    hideously ugly.
     
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    #4 energy88, Jul 21, 2018
    Landing gear looks anemic. Was this plane designed to carry ping-pong balls?
     
  5. Tcar

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    #5 Tcar, Jul 21, 2018
    Carries Volume, not weight...

    Bare aircraft fuselage.

    But you know that....
     
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    #6 Hannibal308, Jul 21, 2018
    Funny...one of my aunts lives in Toulouse and just loves that thing...sent me an article on it last week...

    The early Guppies used to be serviced at Tracor at SBA when I was a kid learning to fly...was always cool to see ome in the air!
     
  7. Jason Crandall

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    #7 Jason Crandall, Jul 25, 2018
    They haul whales in that thing?
     
  8. jcurry

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    #8 jcurry, Jul 25, 2018
    Quite a few airplanes where mission objective was the priority in design vs aesthetics. Besides, it looks like all the other beluga/guppy aircraft that proceeded it.
     
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    #9 Bob Parks, Jul 25, 2018
    As in the Industrial Designer's code, " Form Follows Function."
     

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