But ASI didn't stop there, and in 1965 it introduced the Super Guppy. This one featured a 25-foot diameter cargo bay, more powerful engines, a pressurized cockpit and a nose that hinged out to ...

NASA's Super Guppy is an aircraft built specifically to ferry large cargo. The Idea for the Super Guppy was introduced in 1965 after the agency's creation of Aero Spaceline Industries' Pregnant ...

NASA’s Super Guppy cargo transport aircraft taxis in to NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center Building 703 ramp in 2019. The aircraft is the only one of its type NASA continues to operate today.

NASA's Super Guppy is big enough to fit entire planes in its teardrop-shaped cargo hold. It's as close to a flying babushka doll as an aircraft can get. Its main function is to transport spaceship ...

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 … ...

First developed in 1962 as a successor to the Pregnant Guppy cargo aircraft, the Super Guppy was designed and built specifically for the purpose of shuttling NASA equipment around the country.

Airbus Beluga, Boeing Dreamlifter, Antonov AN-225: these are the names of some of the biggest aircraft in the world, designed to carry extremely large cargo, such as parts of other planes. Because ...

The large silver aircraft, which is reportedly based out of El Paso, looks like no other (although multiple variations of it have been produced). It features a large fuselage that can hold odd and ...

TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — On Saturday (June 30), visitors to The Museum of Flight in Seattle will get an up-close look at a very unusual NASA aircraft. In fact, it’s not uncommon for air ...

NASA explained that the Super Guppy has a cargo compartment that is 25 feet tall, 25 feet wide and 111 feet long and can carry more than 26 tons.

The Super Guppy airplane opens on the nose end for large cargo. NASA/Bridget Caswell "Although there are other aircraft capable of carrying more weight than the Super Guppy, very few come close to ...

We (and our kids) had a great time today down at the Museum of Flight, where NASA’s freakishly cool Super Guppy cargo plane delivered the crew compartment of the Full Fuselage Trainer — the ...