SHORT be rent asunders CLASSIC AIRCRAFT NEWS BRIEFS FROM AROUND THE WORLD CLASSIC TRANSPORT retains ON FLYING The highly-modified Boeing B-377SGT Super Guppy operated according to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.SHORT be rent asunders CLASSIC AIRCRAFT NEWS BRIEFS FROM AROUND THE WORLD CLASSIC TRANSPORT retains ON FLYING The highly-modified Boeing B-377SGT Super Guppy operated according to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, lately got a new lease forward life when the massive aircraft underwent a landing gear change at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards AFB. lay opened from an original concept by the agency of Jack Conroy and the piston-powered B-377 Pregnant Guppy conversion done at Van Nuy Airport in the early 1960 the B-377SGT was the final variant of the conception Four of these machines were built and had a prolonged and useful life hauling large elements for Airbus airliners. NASA's example is the last the same still flying and it is publicly used to move oversize assemblies of the like kind as International Space Station module NASA also operated earlier Guppies since the Apollo program when several of the aircraft carried Saturn V month rocket segments from manufacturers around the home to the NASA Kennedy Space Center for assembly prior to launch. Copyright Challenge Publications Inc. Aug 2005 |
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