[Paul Ross]

Saw this in email last week. An impressive beast. Wonder if it will be as trick to fly as the Super-Guppy.

[skeptoid]

"Wonder if it will be as trick to fly as the Super-Guppy."

You mean like the 377SG that lifted the mains well before the nosegear on takeoff? This 1959K QuickTime video supposedly shows it. I don't know if that was typical of all T.O. weights and C.G.'s, but I've heard the Super Guppy's fuselage made a lot of lift.