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To Ohio why was the NASA’s Super Guppy Flying ?
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To Ohio why was the NASA’s Super Guppy Flying ?

NASA's bulbous Super Guppy arrived at Mansfield Lahm Airport on the end of the week with a fascinating bit of payload installed. The air ship was conveying the Orion space case which was in transit to NASA's Plum Brook Station at Sandusky. Super Guppy (N941NA) contacted down at Mansfield Lahm mid-evening yesterday, Sunday, November 24, 2019. It's not the nearest air terminal to Plum Brook, however Mansfield Lahm has a 9000×150 foot runway – exactly what the large outsized air ship needs. Yesterday's flight started at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Subsequent to arriving in Ohio, the Orion container was moved to a 135 foot truck for the six-hour trip up to Sandusky. That adventure will occur today, Monday, November 25, 2019. In flying machine that resembles it's out of a ...