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OK, NASA. Your 'Super Guppy' Plane Is Super Rad
NASA's Super Guppy airplane may look like a bloated steel whale, but it's carrying very valuable cargo.
The wide-bodied aircraft landed at an airfield near Huntsville, Ala. on Wednesday with — in NASA's own words — "an innovative composite rocket fuel tank." The Super Guppy has a hinged nose that opens for easy unloading. Once the tank is removed, NASA will test it for future missions at its Marshall Space Flight Center.
See also: 7 Oddball Things Found on the Space Station
Nice rear-end, Super Guppy.
Image: NASA
Super Guppy isn't new — it's just super cool.
This aircraft, which is operated by NASA and manufactured by Boeing, is used to carry exceptionally large cargo. It's successor, which looked very similar and carried components of the Apollo moon program, was appropriately named Pregnant Guppy.
NASA's Pregnant Guppy plane carried components of the Apollo missions.
Image: NASA
UPDATE: March 27 at 4:05 p.m. ET
Resident "aviation expert" Andrew Freedman requested we add other cool Boeing and Airbus planes to this article. So, here's a dose of plane porn, aviation nerds.
A converted Boeing 747-400 freighter dubbed the "Dreamlifter" that ferries large Boeing 787 parts from domestic and overseas suppliers
Image: Joe Nicholson/Associated Press
An Airbus A300-600ST "Beluga" is seen with open hatch at the airport.
Image: Joerg Sarbach/Associated Press
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