Prop vortices on NASA Super Guppy!

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smaad@reddit

Every time I hear "Super Guppy" my brain follows it with this sound

*chomp chomp chomp chomp chomp chomp chomp

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InnerBreath2884@reddit

The fact this thing still flies is insane. Love it

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AwayYam199@reddit

We would watch them fly over our elementary school in Long Beach during the Apollo years, we would all point in the sky and yell "pregnant guppy!".

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747WakeTurbulance@reddit

One of the last B-29's still airworthy.

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classyhornythrowaway@reddit

The fact that it flies at all is insane, an affront to the physics gods and a monument to the hubris of man, and I mean all this in the best possible way

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HelloSlowly@reddit

The most adorable plane that ever flew

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Xav_NZ@reddit

How many aircraft are holding in queue ? and is there a random C47 there waiting ?

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BorisLordofCats@reddit

Oshkosh probably. That would explain the line and the C-47 in the line

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ICPcrisis@reddit

Im running low on fuel just looking at that !

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Netolu@reddit

Oshkosh for certain, you can see the yellow dot.

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altec777777@reddit

One of these is not like the others....

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Shoddy_Act7059@reddit

Not sure if what I'm seeing is correct, but is those air clouds behind the starboard outer propeller being churned around by said propeller about six seconds in?

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PiperArrow@reddit

Yes, that's the whole point of OP posting the video. That's vapor condensation caused by low pressure in the vortices trailing from the propeller tips.

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itsaride@reddit

Surprised the budget airlines don't have some of those for pax stacking cheap seats with no windows.

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AlphSaber@reddit

They would need to first pressurize the hull, as it currently is the cargo area is unpressurized.

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G-III-@reddit

“When a dirigible airship and a cargo aircraft love each other very much..”

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Samari45@reddit

Was this plane named by the OSS from spy kids?

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wyomingTFknott@reddit

What are they having a board meeting?

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frix86@reddit

This was at EAA a few years ago. The biggest gathering of airplanes (all types) there is.

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bacondesign@reddit

No, the Super Guppy is based on the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser that uses P&W Wasp Major radial prop engines.

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havoc1428@reddit

I love the line of little planes and then there is this massive C-47 in the back like "How do you do, fellow kids?"

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BBHCHS@reddit

I love watching the Super Guppy takeoff… But that pan over to the line of little guys waiting to take off is fun as well. That DC 3 looks like a mama duck in a giant brood of ducklings.

This has to be Oshkosh… I’ve always wanted to go and just reading about the traffic management plans they have in place is always fascinating. Getting several thousand planes in and out of one location of the course of a few days is an amazing accomplishment.

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