Military Details's video: C-5 Galaxy lost: The Nasa s Super Guppy - The Biggest Cargo Plane in the World

The air traffic controllers were so doubtful that the plane would even get off the ground that they notified police and fire departments to be on alert. But the Super Guppy proved them wrong. On September 19, 1962, the bizarre new aircraft took to the skies near Los Angeles. When former Air Force pilot Jack Conroy took off and safely landed this specially modified hulk of a plane without a hitch, he inaugurated a new age of airborne transport lead by Aero Spaceline's Guppy family of aircraft. This shiny silver monster, then known as the Pregnant Guppy, looks more like an airship than an aircraft. It's the epitome of the design philosophy "go big or go home." Today, despite being fifty years old, this frankenplane can still transport monstrous cargo, even outmatching the C-5 Galaxy by volume. Along the way, that cavernous cargo space would make the Guppy an indispensable part of humanity's journey to the Moon. Birth of a Frankenplane Today's Super Guppy is only the latest iteration in a series of specially-built aircraft made by Aero Spacelines, Inc. Its nickname "Frankenplane" is a literal one, because the the Guppy is actually made of elements from other aircraft. Source: https://bit.ly/3gzkStP