It’s not often that a piece of technology can still leave you in awe 50+ years after its creation, but that exactly the kind of magic Aero Spacelines captured when it built the Super Guppy.

“Eventually Airbus acquired the rights to manufacture the Super Guppy from Aero Spacelines, so they built another two of their own and used them for many years,” says Simons. By the mid ...

On August 31, 1965, NASA's Super Guppy cargo plane took its first test flight. This oversized aircraft looks a bit like a giant flying whale. It was built by a company called Aero Spacelines and ...

NASA retired its original Super Guppy in 1991, and the Pregnant Guppy was cut down for scrap; there were no replacement parts for these unique aircraft, and Aero Spacelines had long gone out of ...

Aero Spacelines fabricated a large dome that was ... Conroy envisioned something bigger, the Super Guppy. For the project, Conroy acquired a Boeing C-97J Turbo Stratocruiser, which was lengthened ...

The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy, which Airbus had previously used for more than 20 years to ferry aircraft assemblies between its production sites across Europe, was based on a 1940s propliner ...

The arrival of the Super Guppy kicks off a week of events as part of the museum’s ShuttleFest celebration. The event this morning is open to the public, and details are available on the museum ...

CNN noted that the SGT boasted a slightly bigger cargo floor of 13 feet Aero Spaceline to the Super Guppy's nine feet. Only four SGTs were made, two by Conroy's company and the last two by the ...

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