Super Guppy

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  johnnywalker

• Jul 4, 2009

If it weren't for the planes in the background, I'd think you took a close-up of a kid's air-filled toy! What exactly is a super guppy?

 

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  Andrew Moxom

• Jul 5, 2009

Kind of reminds me of Squidward on Spongebob!! Great shot.

 

• canuhead

• Jul 5, 2009

Like Johnnywalker, I thought it was ballon day somewhere so I had to google and found these...

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/assembly/superguppy/

http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1815.htm

That is one strange looking craft but if it's good enough for NASA...

 

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  Mark Fisher

• Jul 5, 2009

That is one ugly aircraft.....even uglier than the DreamLifter (used for the 787 assembly). They are impressively strange in person too. I'm always amazed that airplanes fly at all and these planes especially!

Great shot of it though. The image captures its strangeness well!

 

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  Wade D

• Jul 5, 2009

Strange indeed. I saw one years ago land in San Diego to pick up Atlas missile parts from Convair. Great shot of an amazing flying machine.

 

• Blighty

• Jul 5, 2009

Kind of reminds me of Squidward on Spongebob!!

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The exact same thought came to my mind!