VIDEO: The story of the Super Guppy

Our dear sponsor has been doing a brisk business selling vintage airliner postcards, highly collectible items for people with an abiding interest in aviation. (Hello, Agent 17!) He just sold a nice card showing the Aero Spacelines B377SG Super Guppy, N1038V.

Ed. [who shares the same interest. Ed.] found this video, "The Aero Spacelines Pregnant Guppy". The introduction to the video says: As the US honed in on what it hoped would be its notable first in manned space exploration, a problem arose that required a unique solution. Surprisingly, the answer to this problem of cutting edge technology turned out to be an obsolete piece of equipment that came as the result of the vision of a daring private entrepreneur, with the help of a few two-by-fours. 

   

Hope you enjoyed that. It's a nice change from politics and religion. But don't worry. We'll come back down to the ground later today.