Odd Ball Aircraft Super Guppy

[VirginiaJim]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2018453603_shuttleguppy17m.html

NASA Super Guppy 377SGT-F N941NA

While the Super Guppy is based on the C-97J Turbo Stratocruiser airframe, it's roots go back to the B-29 as that was used in part to design the C-97.  The KC-97 was a tanker in the 50s/60s in the USAF.  My dad was a crew chief on those at Lincoln AFB in the late 50s/60s.

[Rhino]

We have a restaurant here in Colorado Springs using a KC97. It has the original Pratt & Whitney R-4360, 28 cylinder engines. Part of the restaurant is inside the airplane.

http://www.coloradorestaurantguides.com/airplanerestaurant/

[tonedeaf]

Here is a nice collection of odd aircraft.

http://www.strangecosmos.com/content/item/142335.html

Click on "Click here to view the presentation".

[VirginiaJim]

I recognized several of them including the Guppy.  One was an HP Victor bomber and the other a C-124 'Old Shakey'.  I have pictures (taken by my dad at Westover) of the HP and the C-124 in the mid-60s.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/12675355@N04/sets/72157622593975242/

[Rhino]

Here is a nice collection of odd aircraft.

http://www.strangecosmos.com/content/item/142335.html

Click on "Click here to view the presentation".

I didn't know the MV-22 Osprey could rotate the main wing for compact storage like that.

[tonedeaf]

I recognized several of them including the Guppy.  One was an HP Victor bomber and the other a C-124 'Old Shakey'.  I have pictures (taken by my dad at Westover) of the HP and the C-124 in the mid-60s.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/12675355@N04/sets/72157622593975242/

If you ever make it up to Eagle and can get off of the C14 long enough, I'll take you for a flight up close and personal to some major cumulogranite.

[VirginiaJim]

Where's Eagle?

[tonedeaf]

Where's Eagle?

Eagle is in central Colorado. Actually I think I got you confused with Jim Hall (who lives near here).

At any rate, the offer still stands.