Super Guppy comes to BFI now with moar pics

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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Super Guppy comes to BFI now with moar pics

Posted: 6/30/2012 12:37:03 PM EDT

The Super Guppy rolled in this afternoon. Brought in the Space Shuttle simulator for the Museum of Flight. Here is a quick pic. I'll get some more up later.

Sir James...

Posted: 6/30/2012 12:53:55 PM EDT

[#1]

Got vid of it flying over Lake Washington!

Posted: 6/30/2012 4:59:56 PM EDT

[#2]

I have heard its flight characteristics are actually not that bad at all. Surprising considering it's visual cues.

Posted: 7/1/2012 7:43:59 AM EDT

[#3]

Awesome pictures, thanks for sharing. My father in law was a boom operator on a KC-97, so for a while I've been kind of interested in the C-97/B337 series of planes, especially since they are descendants of the B-50/B-29's.

Posted: 7/1/2012 7:46:34 AM EDT

[#4]

My father flew KC-97s for the first few years of his AF career, and transitioned to the KC-135s the moment they got delivered to the USAF.

I think that's the only KC-97 (derivative) still flying that's owned and operated by the US government.

Posted: 7/1/2012 12:18:07 PM EDT

[#5]

I helped load the solar array joint (SARJ) for the Space Station into the Super Guppy at TUL. I was working for Boeing at KSC at the time.

It's an awesome airplane and I think it's way cooler than that French monster, the Beluga (but then again, I got to load a MPLM into it in Turin, Italy

)

Posted: 7/1/2012 2:45:22 PM EDT

[#6]

I'm always stunned at how small that hinge point looks in comparison to the other components.

Posted: 7/2/2012 6:09:15 AM EDT

[#7]

I stood out by the taxi way @ Dyess about 30 years ago & watched a SG taxi in for fuel. The RT MLG brakes were on fire to the point I could feel the heat as it rolled by!

They refueled on the Trans/Alert pad like nothing was wrong & took-off !
It's the only brake fire I ever saw.

The Ol' Crew Chief

Posted: 7/2/2012 6:12:25 AM EDT

[#8]

I saw the Super Guppy back at the Oshkosh Airshow probably around 11 years ago. It was spectacularly awesome.

Posted: 7/2/2012 7:42:11 AM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
My father flew KC-97s for the first few years of his AF career, and transitioned to the KC-135s the moment they got delivered to the USAF.

I think that's the only KC-97 (derivative) still flying that's owned and operated by the US government.

Berlin Airlift Foundation has a C-97 that is being returned to flying condition.
Clay Lacy has 97 and parts that he got from Hawkins & Powers bankruptcy a few years back. It might fly again one day.

Posted: 7/2/2012 11:55:08 AM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:

Quoted:
My father flew KC-97s for the first few years of his AF career, and transitioned to the KC-135s the moment they got delivered to the USAF.

I think that's the only KC-97 (derivative) still flying that's owned and operated by the US government.

Berlin Airlift Foundation has a C-97 that is being returned to flying condition.
Clay Lacy has 97 and parts that he got from Hawkins & Powers bankruptcy a few years back. It might fly again one day.

I could have sworn I read something last fall or this spring about somebody taking a KC-97 or a C-97 and converting it back into a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser ? I will have to see what I can dig up. Berlin Foundation C-97 is flying, and somebody in Alaska has one that still works apparently.

Posted: 7/2/2012 3:30:05 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:

Quoted:
My father flew KC-97s for the first few years of his AF career, and transitioned to the KC-135s the moment they got delivered to the USAF.

I think that's the only KC-97 (derivative) still flying that's owned and operated by the US government.

Berlin Airlift Foundation has a C-97 that is being returned to flying condition.
Clay Lacy has 97 and parts that he got from Hawkins & Powers bankruptcy a few years back. It might fly again one day.

I could have sworn I read something last fall or this spring about somebody taking a KC-97 or a C-97 and converting it back into a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser ? I will have to see what I can dig up. Berlin Foundation C-97 is flying, and somebody in Alaska has one that still works apparently.

I haven't spoken with Tim at Berlin Airlift in a while, but unless you know something I don't their airplane is not flying.

Posted: 7/2/2012 3:47:27 PM EDT

[#12]

Um, excuse me but do you know there's an airplane in your parking lot?

Posted: 7/2/2012 7:01:30 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:

Quoted:
My father flew KC-97s for the first few years of his AF career, and transitioned to the KC-135s the moment they got delivered to the USAF.

I think that's the only KC-97 (derivative) still flying that's owned and operated by the US government.

Berlin Airlift Foundation has a C-97 that is being returned to flying condition.
Clay Lacy has 97 and parts that he got from Hawkins & Powers bankruptcy a few years back. It might fly again one day.

I could have sworn I read something last fall or this spring about somebody taking a KC-97 or a C-97 and converting it back into a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser ? I will have to see what I can dig up. Berlin Foundation C-97 is flying, and somebody in Alaska has one that still works apparently.

I haven't spoken with Tim at Berlin Airlift in a while, but unless you know something I don't their airplane is not flying.

Yup, sounds like its not flying, for some reason got my wires crossed. I was thinking of something else. Just watched vid of them swinging gear, I can't wait to see it back in the air.

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