Super Guppy Swallows T-38s <\/p>\n
Two retired NASA T-38 trainers mounted on a transport pallet atop a mobile transporter are positioned for loading aboard NASA's Super Guppy prior to ferrying them to El Paso, Texas, for disassembly. Image released March 21, 2013. <\/p>\n
Workmen carefully guide the first of the T-38s into place as it is hoisted onto its pallet. Image released March 21, 2013. <\/p>\n
The second retired T-38 joins its companion on the special transport pallet. Image released March 21, 2013. <\/p>\n
As the Super Guppy awaits its cargo in the background, workmen secure the second T-38 to its transport pallet. Image released March 21, 2013. <\/p>\n
After opening the nose section of the Guppy, hoisting the T-38s onto a specially designed pallet atop a mobile transporter, loading the pallet and T-38s onto the Guppy and then reclosing the Guppy's nose section about a 2.5-hour process the Guppy departed for El Paso. Image released March 21, 2013. <\/p>\n
A NASA Super Guppy transport plane \"swallowed\" two NASA T-38 aircraft whole March 18, right out on NASA Dryden Flight Research Center's back ramp. Image released March 21, 2013. <\/p>\n
The Super Guppy is the latest iteration of its kind the last of three outsized aircraft to have transported a number of NASA's hefty payloads ranging from Saturn rockets to International Space Station modules. Image released March 21, 2013, <\/p>\n
NASA's outsized SGT Super Guppy-Turbine transport aircraft lifts off the runway at Edwards Air Force Base after a prior visit. <\/p>\n
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