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| Keywords: Members of the flight and ground crews prepare to unload equipment from NASA's B377SGT Super Guppy T DVIDS727520.jpg en Members of the flight and ground crews prepare to unload equipment from NASA's B377SGT Super Guppy Turbine cargo aircraft on the ramp at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base Calif The outsize cargo plane had delivered the latest version of the X-38 flight test vehicle to NASA Dryden when this photo was taken on June 11 2000 The B-377SGT Super Guppy Turbine evolved from the 1960s-vintage Pregnant Guppy Mini Guppy and Super Guppy used for transporting sections of the Saturn rocket used for the Apollo program moon launches and other outsized cargo The various Guppies were modified from 1940's and 50's-vintage Boeing Model 377 and C-97 Stratocruiser airframes by Aero Spacelines Inc which operated the aircraft for NASA NASA's Flight Research Center assisted in certification testing of the first Pregnant Guppy in 1962 One of the turboprop-powered Super Guppies built up from a YC-97J airframe last appeared at Dryden in May 1976 when it was used to transport the HL-10 and X-24B lifting bodies from Dryden to the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Ohio NASA's present Super Guppy Turbine the fourth and last example of the final version first flew in its outsized form in 1980 It and its three sister ships were built in the 1970s for Europe's Airbus Industrie to ferry outsized structures for Airbus jetliners to the final assembly plant in Toulouse France It later was acquired by the European Space Agency and then acquired by NASA in late 1997 for transport of large structures for the International Space Station to the launch site It replaced the earlier-model Super Guppy which has been retired and is used for spare parts NASA's Super Guppy Turbine carries NASA registration number N941NA and is based at Ellington Field near the Johnson Space Center For more information on NASA's Super Guppy Turbine log onto the Johnson Space Center Super Guppy web page at http //spaceflight nasa gov/station/assembly/superguppy/ NASA Identifier NIX-EC00-0212-13 2009-09-23 Glenn Research Center https //www dvidshub net/image/727520 727520 2012-10-17 14 04 WASHINGTON DC US PD-USGov Aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Images from DoD uploaded by Fæ | ||||
