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That is one ugly airframe, top ranking for being the ugliest!Super Guppy low pass over Boeing Field - YouTube The NASA Super Guppy makes a Low Pass over Boeing Field!!!
Yeah, situations happen, for sure. AIr Guard pilot I knew used to tell me: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".
.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!
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.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".
.And here she is today... https://www.b29doc.com/
.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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