2024年1月24日 · Built from a heavily modified KC-97 Stratotanker, the Pregnant Guppy featured the largest cargo compartment of any aircraft ever built. At just over 19’ in diameter, this massive cavity was specifically designed to carry the second stage of a …

The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy is a large, wide-bodied cargo aircraft that is used for hauling outsize cargo components. It was the successor to the Pregnant Guppy, the first of the Guppy aircraft produced by Aero Spacelines.

2014年12月12日 · The Super Guppy, which is based at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, carried the 30-foot (9.14 meters) wide, 10,000-pound (4,536 kilograms) composite, double deck multi-bay box from Long Beach, California, to Virginia so researchers can bend, pressurize and eventually break it.

14 小时之前 · The story goes that John Conroy and entrepreneur Lee Mansdorf had the idea to develop an outsize cargo plane over dinner, knowing that NASA was having problems with transporting large parts involved in its space program. The company's first project was to convert a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser into the 'Pregnant Guppy', the first of the Guppy aircraft.

2022年8月10日 · Boasting an immense cargo area that is 25 feet in diameter and 111 feet long, the Super Guppy can carry items that are virtually impossible to fit inside other cargo aircraft. …

2023年7月25日 · On July 20, 1969, the first human being set foot on the moon. It never would have happened without the assistance of NASA's Super Guppy. The turboprop-powered aircraft was designed in the 1960s...

The Aero Spacelines Pregnant Guppy was a large, wide-bodied cargo aircraft built in the United States and used for ferrying outsized cargo items, most notably components of NASA 's Apollo program. [1]

2023年7月24日 · NASA's specialized cargo plane 'Super Guppy' on display at AirVenture. On Monday, its crew rotated the forward fuselage section, opening it up to give a look inside the belly of the beast.

2023年6月27日 · Among the warbirds, homebuilts and aircraft displays will be the NASA Super Guppy, a unique cargo plane filled with a full-size test article of the Orion space capsule.

2023年11月9日 · After over half a century of loyal service, the world’s last remaining Super Guppy aircraft continues to dutifully transport NASA’s gigantic rocket parts in its cavernous, hinged cargo bay.