Super Guppy lands in Seattle
Jun 30, 2012, 8:54 AM | Updated: 12:41 pm
A specially-designed “Super Guppy” wide body turbo-prop plane will make a fly-by in Seattle Saturday.
The shuttle, which is flying from Travis Air Force Base in northern California, is dropping off a Space Shuttle trainer at the Museum of Flight.
It’s expected to fly over the museum at between 800 and 1,000 feet (clearly visible to most even below the clouds) at noon. The Super Guppy will circle downtown Seattle in a special fly-by after that.
The Super Guppy will also make a trip across Lake Washington and circle Paine Field in Everett before landing at Boeing Field in around noon.
NASA and the Museum of Flight have set up a flight tracking page for the Supper Guppy’s trip.
The Super Guppy will make several more trips this summer to bring NASA’s Full Fuselage Space Shuttle Trainer from the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. It will be on display, after reassembly, in the Museum of Flight’s new Charles Simonyi Space Gallery.
Jillian Raftery contributed to this story.
