... all about Guppies (not the fishy kind!)

[Weaver]

The loading/unloading situation is the principle reason for suggesting a high-wing one with a low floor. I wonder if it would be practical to make a square or rectangular -section one (like a giant Skyvan), which would allow suitably wide-track, fuselage-mounted undercarriage. It would probably have to be unpressurised.....

Now why does that sound familiar? 

The words 'Blackburn' and 'Beverley' keep coming to mind.

Yes, but I had in mind something that would make a Beverley look positively svelte....

[PR19_Kit]

The Qatar C-17(s) look like civil ones.......... 

Nope, they have one painted in Qatar Airlines livery but its a standard C-17A and operated by the Qatar Amiri flight,
in other words the military.

That's why I wrote 'look like civil ones' and I added the smiley at the end............ <sigh>

[PR19_Kit]

Yes, but I had in mind something that would make a Beverley look positively svelte....

I didn't think you could use the words 'Beverley' and 'svelte' in the same sentence......

[pyro-manic]

Maybe it just folds backwards into the front of the cargo section? Or is that entire cargo pod detachable?

[PR19_Kit]

That looks like a 21st Century jet version of the Fairchild XC-120 Pack Plane!

Very nice though, where did you find it? As for the nosewheel, it looks mechanically impossible, then it is Russian.....

[Daryl J.]

I wonder what a C-47 Guppy would have looked like either with original radials or with a turboprop kit.       That and a Boeing 307 Stratoliner based Guppy.


Cheers,
Daryl J.

[apophenia]

Pyro': The cargo pod looks detachable. Maybe the nose gear retracted into the pod when attached, into the main body when no pod was attached? 

'Kit: I found the image on Secret Projects -- boxkite had added three different out-sized cargo projects from the Myasishchev OKB to his thread on the Saro Princess Guppy proposal.
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,1292.msg10735

A couple other Guppy-related images from Secret Projects:

B-52 Guppy (Reply #1)
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,1042.msg8319

B-36 Guppy for NASA (Reply #38)
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,181.msg2105

[OT: anyone know what the early '70s Conroy Virtus Space Shuttle transport project (4 x TF33s) looked like?]

[Black Knight]

I wonder what a C-47 Guppy would have looked like either with original radials or with a turboprop kit.    

Who's been reading my mind or browsing my hardrive?  got it planned for a 1/72 build 

[Daryl J.]

 

[Black Knight]

detailed rough drawing  , what bout a b-29?  

[Daryl J.]

The real Super Guppy has its roots in the B-29.