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The B-377PG Pregnant Guppy was followed by an even larger B-377SG Super Guppy: this featured not only an outsize fuselage, with a cargo compartment measuring 33.17m in overall length, 7.62m in width, and 7,77m in height, but also an increased wing span and four 5220kW turboprop engines. This Super Guppy was also used in the American space programme, it being the only aircraft able to carry the third stage of a Saturn V launch vehicle, and the Lunar Module adapter.
| MODEL | 377SG "Super Guppy" |
| CREW | 3-4 |
| ENGINE | 4 x Pratt-Whitney T-34P7 turboprops, 4500kW |
| WEIGHTS |
| Take-off weight | 79400 kg | 175048 lb |
| Empty weight | 47600 kg | 104941 lb |
| Payload | 18500kg | 40786 lb |
| DIMENSIONS |
| Wingspan | 47.7 m | 156 ft 6 in |
| Length | 43.1 m | 141 ft 5 in |
| Height | 11.7 m | 38 ft 5 in |
| PERFORMANCE |
| Max. speed | 480 km/h | 298 mph |
| Ceiling | 6000 m | 19700 ft |
| Jeff Taylor, CarGuyOne(@)aol.com, 16.07.2008 I got to watch these come into Ellington AFB TX when I was stationed there in the late 1960s. Really cool to watch them open up! | | bngfhnfg, 01.03.2008 OMG! THATS SO UGLY!! |
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