Before The Airbus Beluga: What To Know About Boeing's Giant 377 Guppies
For example, the newer BelugaXL can carry two Airbus A350 wings simultaneously or other unusual oversized cargo, such as ...
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The Photos are Real: NASA's Super Guppy Plane Is Real (With a Special Mission)
the Pregnant Guppy featured the widest cargo hold of its time. -Its successor, the Super Guppy, offered further improvements.
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Retro Spaceplane aces test for space station cargo missions
A retro-futuristic spacecraft with a mixture of the old and new has passed a major milestone as it's readied for its debut ...
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Modified Cessna Caravan Kicks Off NASA's Research Into Remotely Piloted Cargo Planes
However, NASA has something even bigger in mind: to deliver goods by means of remotely piloted cargo planes. Small planes, but still… The main goal behind the space agency's latest idea is to ...
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NASA gives the thumbs up for production of Dream Chaser space plane
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has apparently convinced NASA that it can make cargo delivery to the ISS a bit easier with a high-tech space plane called the Dream Chaser. Now, after jumping ...
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NASA uses this "Super Guppy" plane to transport rockets
An curved arrow pointing right. Big rockets require a big mode of transportation, which is why NASA has the "Super Guppy." It's a massively large cargo plane designed to carry other planes ...
Sierra Space Dream Chaser 'mini shuttle' space plane tests continue toward May maiden flight
Wednesday, Sierra Space officials announced the spacecraft successfully completed and passed another round of test milestones ...
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NASA's about to fly its powerful X-plane. It could make history.
Planes that fly faster than the speed of sound create thunderous supersonic booms. But with NASA's X-59 plane, that could change. The space agency plans for the aircraft's first flight in 2025 ...
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Shushing Sonic Booms: NASA’s Supersonic X-Plane To Take Flight In 2021
Earlier this month, NASA started performing simulated “sonic ... the speed of our passenger and cargo aircraft simply hasn’t kept up. One could even argue that its slowed down, as during ...
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Ex-NASA astronaut who nearly collided with two ‘metallic orbs’ while piloting plane reveals they had ‘no visible means of propulsion’
The former NASA astronaut who nearly collided with a pair of metallic orbs while flying his plane remains befuddled by the mysterious objects, revealing to The Post they showed “no visible means ...
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Avenging the Concorde: Inside NASA’s Quest to Break the Sound Barrier and Hush the Sonic Boom
Enter NASA’s latest—and by far sleekest—experimental aircraft, the X-59. The 100-foot-long, 29-foot-wide X-59 is the centerpiece of a NASA mission dubbed Quesst (“Quiet SuperSonic ...
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Sierra’s reusable space plane just entered its final testing phase at NASA
The spacecraft is a reusable space plane designed by Sierra Space ... Dream Chaser is just one of several commercial cargo resupply spacecrafts that NASA will work with to keep the International ...