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Cargo Aircraft: the Aero Spacelines Guppy Series (Pregnant Guppy and Super Guppy), Images by Manfred Krutein, Les Clark, Ruby Jordan, PHOTOVAULT®

This page contains samples from our picture files on the Aero Spacelines Guppy Series (Pregnant Guppy and Super Guppy). For Pricing, General Guidelines, and Delivery information click here. You may contact us thru email or by phone for more information on the use of these pictures, and any others in our files not shown here. You may also use our search engine PHOTOVALET(tm) to find other images not found on this page. Please do not ask us or email us for free use of these pictures! Our Cargo Aircraft Pages can be linked to as follows: Cargo Volume D1, Cargo Volume 1, Cargo Volume 2, Cargo Volume 3

PHOTOVAULT® AVIATION Museum contains a collection of cargo aircraft. The following are some of these type aircraft: Aerospacelines Guppy Series: B-377PG Pregnant Guppy, B-377SG Super Guppy, Guppy 21, Airbus: A-300, A-300 Beluga, A-310, Antonov: An-2, An-124, Armstrong-Whitworth: AW650 Argosy, Aviation Traders: Carvair ATL98, Boeing: 747, Canadair: CL-44 Yukon, Cessna: Model 208 Caravan, Douglas: DC-8, DC-9, DC-10, MD-11, Lockheed: L-100, Ryan: M-1, Short: Short S.C.5 Belfast
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Included in the Vault are images of: Flying Tiger Line, Northwest Cargo, FedEx, UPS, Southern Air, Airborne Express, CanAir Cargo, Polar Air Cargo, Kitty Hawk, Postal Service, B-377PG Pregnant Guppy, B-377SG Super Guppy, Guppy 201


The guppy series of aircraft was built to transport outsized cargo for NASA's Apollo program, primarily to carry portions of the Saturn V rockets from the manufacturer to Cape Canaveral. The original Guppy modification incorporated the wings, engines, lower fuselage and tail from a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser with a huge upper fuselage more than 20 feet in diameter. The Super Guppy further expanded the fuselage, replaced the original piston engines with more powerful turbo-prop engines, and added a taller vertical tail for better lateral stability.

The Super Guppy was succeeded by the final version of the Guppy aircraft, the B377SGT Super Guppy Turbine, built from 1970 to 1980 for Airbus Industrie to airlift large sections of Airbus jetliners from various manufacturing plants in Europe to the final assembly plant in Toulouse, France. The fourth and last of the Super Guppy Turbine aircraft was obtained by NASA Johnson Space Center from the European Space Agency in late 1997 to ferry outsize components of the International Space Station from their manufacturers around the world to launch sites in preparation for sending them into orbit. It is the last of the Guppy aircraft still flying. The Airbus Beluga has taken on the role of oversized transportation of aircraft parts and sections.

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