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To: TankerKC

Another “Why Concrete Bombs Are So Useful”


Great thread but what the heck kind of plane is that a picture of in post #106? Photoshopped?


50 posted on 10/08/2005 8:04:14 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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Guppy .... Pregnant or Super
60 posted on 10/08/2005 8:30:07 PM PDT by Yasotay
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To: metmom
Great thread but what the heck kind of plane is that a picture of in post #106? Photoshopped?

Nope, it's a Super Guppy, used to transport out-sized, but not especially heavy, cargo. Often fuselage sections for large aircraft. But that particular one appears to be the NASA owned Super Guppy

IIRC, Airbus has a jet airliner converted to the Guppy configuration. However that one, and all the US versions, started life as a Boeing Stratocruiser (or possibly a KC-97, which was the earlier military version of the same airframe.) The radial piston engines have been swapped for turbo-props, and of course the main lobe's diameter has been grossly increased.

I actually rode in a C-97 once. It had been the command post bird for CincSAC General Curtis LeMay in an earlier life. The -97 and the Stratocruiser were in essence B-29s with a larger diameter fuselage. Wing, landing gear, wheels, and even controls and radios were the same as the old B-29 from late WW-II. I flew in the -97 in 1971.

76 posted on 10/08/2005 9:10:59 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: metmom
Great thread but what the heck kind of plane is that a picture of in post #106? Photoshopped?

That's a real plane. The Super Guppy

81 posted on 10/08/2005 9:21:16 PM PDT by TankerKC (Done with the NFL..)
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