The Super Guppy

[Meyekul]

Gotta be one of the biggest planes ever built, especially for a prop.  Anyone tried building it for FS yet?

   The Super Guppy, designated 377SG-201, has a cargo compartment that is 25 feet tall, 25 feet wide and 111 feet long. It can carry a maximum payload of more than 26 tons. The aircraft has unique hinged nose that can open more than 200 degrees, allowing large pieces of cargo to be loaded and unloaded from the front.

http://jsc-aircraft-ops.jsc.nasa.gov/guppy

[ozzy72]

If I remember corretly the last Guppy model made for FS was in FS2000.

Ozzy

[Meyekul]

Nice, it has some glitches in FS9.. but it looks pretty good once you get it in the air.  I'm not sure if the flight modelling is off in FS9 or if I'm just not good at flying a plane this big, but it's really hard to control

I think with a little tweaking it could work well in FS9, but I don't even know where to start doing it myself.  I did manage to get this fat bird out of KJFK for a quick screenshot:

[ozzy72]

I thought you wanted the four-engined prop version. The jet version flies nicely, but is a dog to barrel-roll

[Meyekul]

Yeah the jet version was the only thing I found here on Simviation, do you know where I could find the prop version?  By the way, I don't think NASA likes you throwing around their parts for the space station doing barrel rolls

Also, the one I downloaded was listed as a "Super Guppy" as well, and NASA did get it from the ESA:

The Super Guppy aircraft was acquired by NASA from the European Space Agency under an International Space Station barter agreement. Manufactured by Airbus Industries, ESA supplied the aircraft to offset the cost to NASA of carrying ESA experiment equipment to the station as part of two future Space Shuttle flights. The new Super Guppy is the latest version in a long line of Guppy cargo aircraft used by NASA. Guppy aircraft were used in several past space programs, including Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab, to transport spacecraft components. The first Guppy aircraft was developed in 1962, designed specifically for NASA operations by Aero Spacelines of California.

[GWSimulations]

Thats the Airbus beluga transport plane - I don't think its the same. I doutb if NASA would use anything european

No, it isn't the same. That is an A300-600-ST Beluga. Constructed by Airbus to replace the super Guppy. It is commonly mistaken for a guppy, but it isn't one. I have developed a "True" Super Guppy, but it's a big file, and i've been waiting since February for a good upload rate to upload it.
http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/ ... 1073791490

[GWSimulations]

I have done a completly new one, and it is now in beta.