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, which in turn was named for its resemblance to a pregnant guppy. Five were built in two variants, both of which were colloquially referred to as the "Super Guppy". June 1968 Lunar Module 3 arrives at Kennedy Space Center, packaged aboard the Aero Spacelines Super Guppy for the Apollo 9 The first, the Super Guppy, or "SG", was built directly from the fuselage of a C-97J Turbo Stratocruiser, the military version of the 1950s Boeing 377 "Stratocruiser" passenger plane. The fuselage was lengthened to 141 feet (43 m), and ballooned out to a maximum inside diameter of 25 ft (7.6 m), the length of the cargo compartment being 94 ft 6 in (28.8 m). The floor of the cargo compartment was still only 8 ft 9 in (2.7 m) wide, as necessitated by the use of the Stratocruiser fuselage.
The Apollo 11 spacecraft Command Module (CM) is loaded aboard a Super Guppy Aircraft at Ellington Air Force Base for shipment to the North American Rockwell Corporation at Downey, California. In addition to the fuselage modifications, the Super Guppy used Pratt & Whitney T-34-P-7 turboprop engines for increased power and range, and modified wing and tail surfaces. It could carry a load of 54,000 pounds (24,494 kg) and cruise at 300 mph (480 km/h). Super Guppy Turbine F-BPPA at Paris–Le Bourget Airport in 1981 The second version was officially known as the Super Guppy Turbine (SGT), although it used turboprop engines like the first Super Guppy. This variant used Allison 501-D22C turboprops. Unlike the previous Guppy, the main portion of its fuselage was constructed from scratch. By building from scratch, Aero Spacelines was able to widen the floor of the cargo compartment to 13 ft (4.0 m). The overall cargo compartment length was increased to 111 ft 6 in (34.0 m), and the improved fuselage and engines allowed for a maximum load of 52,500 lb (23,800 kg).
[3] These design improvements, combined with a pressurized crew cabin that allowed for higher-altitude cruising, allowed the SGT to transport more cargo than its predecessors. Super Guppy Turbine being unloaded The SGT retained only the cockpit, wings, tail, and main landing gear of the 377. The nose gear was taken from a Boeing 707 and rotated 180 degrees. This dropped the front of the aircraft slightly, leveling the cargo bay floor and simplifying loading operations. In the early 1970s, the two Super Guppies were used by Airbus to transport aeroplane parts from decentralised production facilities to the final assembly plant in Toulouse. In 1982 and 1983, two additional Super Guppies were built by Union de Transports Aériens Industries in France after Airbus bought the right to produce the aircraft. The four Super Guppies have since been replaced by the Airbus Beluga, capable of carrying twice as much cargo by weight. NASA Super Guppy on display at Pima Air & Space Museum
All Super Guppies remain either in service, mothballed, or on display. Orthographic diagram of the 377-SGT Data from Encyclopedia of The World's Commercial and Private Aircraft[6] and NASA.gov[3] Super Guppy Turbine F-GDSG at Paris–Le Bourget Airport in 1984 ^ a b c d e f g h i Available from these retailers Monday to Sunday 06:00 - 21:30 o'clock Monday to Sunday 05:30 - 22:00 o'clock Monday to Sunday 07:00 - 21:00 o'clock Monday to Sunday 06:00 - 21:00 o'clock Monday to Sunday 09:00 - 20:00 o'clock Monday to Sunday 06:00 - 22:00 o'clock Monday to Sunday 05:30 - 21:30 o'clock Available in Online Store Horrible news out of The Slow Mo Guys backyard this evening, as an engine of a LEGO cargo plane burst into flames, bringing the airliner down in to the heart of Slowmopolis City. The plastic destruction was massive, and all of it was caught by a high-speed camera. As a loyal Nerdist reader you know how much we love LEGOs, and you also know how much we love watching things in super slow-motion (especially things getting destroyed), so this latest from Dan and Gavin feels like something we conjured up from sheer force of will for our amusement.
The pair threw a LEGO plane through a bustling LEGO city to let us watch it happen on their high-speed camera (though it required two attempts after the first one just featured a plane taking a nose dive into the edge of a table, which was funnier but way less satisfying). And because watching fire and explosions in slow-mo is even better, they then showed the horrible results when the rescue crew forgot about all of that LEGO jet fuel, leading to even more plastic catastrophe. As they pointed out, this was a particularly silly video, even for them (which is really saying something), but we strongly encourage the slow-mo destruction of any and all LEGO pieces if it means a few mindless minutes of entertainment for us. What other LEGO builds should Dan and Gavin destroy next? Don’t be slow, get into our comments section and tell us your best ideas. Images: The Slow Mo Guys/YouTubeEMAILPRINTWorld's largest aircraft, the Antonov An-225 Mriya will land in Indian on May 13.Hyderabad: The world's largest cargo aircraft - Antonov An-225 Mriya - is scheduled to make its first landing in India this week at the Rajiv Gandhi International airport in Hyderabad.The wide body An-225 aircraft, which will land in Hyderabad on May 13, is powered by six turbofan engines and is the longest and heaviest airplane ever built
, with a maximum takeoff weight of 640 tonnes.It also has the largest wingspan of any aircraft in operational service. Specially built to undertake transcontinental route airlifting load between 180-230 tonnes, the aircraft will be coming in to Hyderabad from Turkmenistan.Reliance Defence had last month signed a strategic partnership agreement with Antonov company of Ukraine for assembly, manufacture and MRO of Antonov platforms in India, both for the commercial and the military market.Reliance Defence together with Antonov would jointly address various requirements including 50-80 seat passenger aircraft programme of the HAL, in its basic configuration and in all its variants such as transport, maritime patrol and other military roles, the company said in a statement.An class of aircraft have long served the Indian Air Force and Navy for over five decades.Currently, the IAF has more than 100 An-32 aircraft on its inventory having completed its last life cycle upgrade will be due for replacements.