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Hmmm..do you like low flying aircraft?....then here ya go!
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De Havilland Mosquito high speed low pass - YouTube OK Back to basics.
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Super Guppy low pass over Boeing Field - YouTube The NASA Super Guppy makes a Low Pass over Boeing Field!!!
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That is one ugly airframe, top ranking for being the ugliest!
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Saw the Guppy and the NASA 747 used to transport the Shuttle, at Biggs Field, Ft Bliss Texas, back in 1986? Ugly dont cut it. The 747 with Shuttle landed there due to "unforeseen" engine red lights. The Guppy also. Biggs was an alternate landing site when these big birds had "situations".
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Yeah, situations happen, for sure. AIr Guard pilot I knew used to tell me:
- Every TAKE-OFF is optional
- Every LANDING is mandatory
He was joking and not joking, all at the same time!
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My absolute best airplane quote was by Chuck Yeager:
"If you can walk away from a landing, It is a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing "
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The Super Guppy started life in 1947 as the Boeing 377 Stratocrusier. The USAF used the cargo version C-97 Stratofreighter. There is one 377 left, and it belongs to the Israeli Airforce. The Super Guppy landed at Boeing Long Beach in Dec 2014 to pick up a large composite bulkhead that the C-17 team had been working on for NASA for a couple years. They made a hard landing and cracked one of the flight deck windows. Fed-Ex had a new one there next day. The flight crew said NASA has a ton of spares salted away for the aircraft.
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NASA Boeing/Aero Spaceline 377-SG Super Guppy N941NA LGB Landing 30 RARE!! - YouTube Here is the Guppy landing at Boeing Long Beach in 2014. The crew invited me in for a tour. The flight deck has changed little since 1947. The first thing you smell when you enter through the crew entry door. Is hydraulic fluid and FR Primer paint. Climb the gantry up to the flight deck, and then open the flight deck back door, and you enter a giant cavern that is the cargo bay.
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We got to tour into the 747 and look at the Shuttle. Someone complained that he wanted to see the inside of the Shuttle cockpit, so I asked my Step brother for some pictures. He was Chief Engineer for the Shuttle cargo arm for a good number of years. I may try and find them. Very interesting!
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NASA 941 Super Guppy Departure from Long Beach Airport - YouTube Well here's the Super Guppy taking off from Boeing Long Beach. The Supper Guppy doesn't rotate on take off, it just kind of levitates into the air.
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(1) B-29 Superfortress Low and LOUD! - YouTube This is the B-29 "Doc" taking off, doing a couple low passes and landing. This is the 2nd airworthy B-29, the other is FiFi. Doc was a derelict at NAS China Lake since the late 50s before being rescued in 2000 and shipped to Wichita Kansas for restoration, in the same hangar where she was built in 1945.
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Here's the B-29 "DOC" in 1987 at NAS China Lake. She was the last B-29 at China Lake, and she wouldn't be removed till 1998. In 2000 she was disassembled and moved to Wichita for restoration.
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And here she is today... https://www.b29doc.com/
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What a Beautiful bird!
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B-29s "Doc" and "Fifi" Flying Together! - EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2017 - YouTube A nice video of Doc & FiFi flying together at Oshkosh in 2017. FiFi was also rescued from China Lake.
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FiFi was in College Station a year ago tomorrow. I went to see and hear it. South wind that day thankfully so I was able to drive around to the departure end of the runway and get a video of it taking off over me. The swapped to 2800 engines years ago to make maintenance cheaper and easier. Still loud, but not like it would have been at full boost with the original power plants.
Hmm, I can’t post the video directly. I will get it to YouTube and then try again later.
Hmm, I can’t post the video directly. I will get it to YouTube and then try again later.
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Here is the video of it taking off over my head: