Aero Spacelines 377PG Pregnant Guppy
1962
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Aero Spacelines 377PG Pregnant Guppy

Aero Spacelines, then based at Van Nuys, California, were quick to appreciate the potential of outsize cargo aircraft that would be able to airlift large booster rocket stages being employed in the American space programme, as well as for the transport of aircraft assemblies, oil drilling equipment, and other items too large to be carried by any then existing aircraft. Work started in 1961 on the conversion of a Boeing B-377 Stratocruiser to fulfil such a role: the fuselage was extended by 5.08m aft of the wing, and a new 'bubble' structure was added over the top of the fuselage to allow the loading of items up to 6.02m in diameter. The resulting B-377PG Pregnant Guppy was flown for the first time on 19 September 1962, and was used from the summer of 1963, under contract to NASA, for the transport of space programme hardware.

Aero Spacelines 377PG Pregnant Guppy


Specification 
 MODEL377PG "Pregnant Guppy"
 ENGINE4 x Pratt-Whitney R-4360, 2625kW
 WEIGHTS
    Take-off weight60200 kg132719 lb
    Empty weight41200 kg90831 lb
    Payload13100kg28881 lb
 DIMENSIONS
    Wingspan43.05 m141 ft 3 in
    Length38.71 m127 ft 0 in


Don Goeke, puzzie63(@)msn.com, 11.05.2008
Rich did you know that their is a Guppy at the Tillamook Navy meuseum in Tillamook, Oregon.
Rich Ambler, wvupap(@)yahoo.com, 21.12.2007
I was one of Aero Spacelines employees from the start.I enjoyed every moment. I still have a few pictures that I took and my old I.D. badge. I would like very much one day to see one of the old aircraft and some of the folks I worked with. Long live the Guppy. Rich

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