Episode 3 tells the historical, and unlikely story of The Super Guppy, the original super cargo transport aircraft that played a pivotal role in NASA’s Apollo program during the space race.

Read more: 11 Of The Oldest Locomotives Still In Service Today One of the first outsize cargo aircraft, the Aero Spacelines ...

Passenger aircraft are built in sections around the ... Back in the 1970s, that job was done by variants of Super Guppy, a conversion of Boeing's turbo-prop powered C-97 Stratofreighter - itself ...