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Fat plane lands at Hanscom

By adamg on Wed, 03/27/2013 - 8:16pm

Super Guppy

Redsox223 watched a rare Super Guppy come in for a landing at Hanscom yesterday.

Copyright Redsox223. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

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By anon on Thu, 03/28/2013 - 7:04am.

why does the photo link to an italian restaurant's website?

By adamg on Thu, 03/28/2013 - 7:15am.

Sorry about that.

By Huuvola on Thu, 03/28/2013 - 9:53am.

For those wondering why the super guppy was here...

It was delivering a heat shield that will be brought to Textron Systems in Wilmington to have a protective coating put on it. The heat shield will then be used on the Orion NASA Spacecraft.

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/03/26/super-guppy-...

By anon on Thu, 03/28/2013 - 11:49am.

look at this thing and see a Beluga Whale?

http://gifts.worldwildlife.org/gift-center/Images/...

By Kathode on Thu, 03/28/2013 - 12:58pm.

That was my first thought.

By ckd on Thu, 03/28/2013 - 1:32pm.

Airbus's follow-on aircraft (built to replace the Super Guppy) is known as the Beluga, so yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_Beluga

By anon on Fri, 03/29/2013 - 10:14am.

I actually had no idea. Thank you for the link and information.