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. Five were built in two variants, both of which were colloquially referred to as the "Super Guppy".

2024年1月24日 · During its illustrious 32 years of service, the original Super Guppy flew over three million miles in support of NASA’s Apollo, Gemini, Skylab, and the International Space Station programs. The Super Guppy Turbine is the last generation of Guppy aircraft ever produced and only four were ever made.

2018年12月17日 · On September 19, 1962, the bizarre new aircraft took to the skies near Los Angeles. When former Air Force pilot Jack Conroy took off and safely landed this specially modified hulk of a plane...

2024年5月24日 · Summary: The Aero Spacelines Guppy, an oddly-shaped cargo plane, played a crucial role in the Space Race by transporting rocket parts across the United States, significantly reducing shipment...

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.

2020年3月29日 · Equipped with a 25-foot diameter cargo bay, and more powerful Allison 501-D22C turboprop engines and a pressurized cockpit, the new Super Guppy was able to fly 1,700 nautical miles with a cruising speed of 250 mph.

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...

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.

2022年3月14日 · Designed and built by Aero Spacelines, Inc., the Super Guppy is a specialized cargo aircraft that was originally developed in the 1960s to facilitate the transportation of large and bulky aerospace components, including rocket stages, …

This is the NASA Super Guppy as it stands today. All wrapped for storage at Pima AFB in Arizona. For the purpose of scale, note the T-34 in the foreground under the Super Guppy's wing. The Super Guppy line of aircraft all had a larger internal volume than the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy!