With a size and body more reminiscent of a whale than a tiny aquarium fish, NASA's Super Guppy plane made a rare stop at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport. Watch it take off. VPC
With a size and body more reminiscent of a whale than a tiny aquarium fish, NASA's Super Guppy plane made a rare stop at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport yesterday, drawing a crowd of spectators and photographers.
NASA's Guppy planes were developed in 1962 and played an instrumental role in support of the agency's Apollo program, which took the first humans to the moon in 1969. The Super Guppy that landed in Arizona is the last of its kind still in use, while several others are on display around the world.
Some other Super Guppy stats:
- The plane isn't particularly fast, lumbering along at about 250 miles per hour.
- It's about two-thirds the size of a Boeing 747 and has a large wheelbase that prevents it from taxiing.
- It weighs about 171,000 pounds and can carry about 40,000 pounds of gas.
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