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US-SPACE-SUPER GUPPY
This NASA photo released December 12, 2014 shows NASA's Super Guppy aircraft, designed to transport extremely large cargo, as it rests after making a special delivery to the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The aircraft measures more than 48 feet (15m)to the top of its tail and has a wingspan of more than 156 feet (48m)with a 25-foot (8m)diameter cargo bay – the aircraft features a hinged nose that opens 110 degrees. A representative test article of a futuristic hybrid wing body aircraft will be unloaded from the Super Guppy on December 12 at Langley Research Center. The large test article, representing the uniquely shaped fuselage cross-section, is made out of a low-weight, damage-tolerant, stitched composite structural concept called Pultruded Rod Stitched Efficient Unitized Structure, or PRSEUS. Langley's Combined
Loads Test System will subject the revolutionary carbon-fiber architecture test article to conditions that simulate loads typically encountered in flight. AFP PHOTO/NASA HANDOUT = RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE / MANDATORY CREDIT: "AFP PHOTO HANDOUT-NASA"/ NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS/ – NO A LA CARTE SALES / DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS / =
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Hampton, Virginia, UNITED STATES |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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12 Decembrie 2014 |
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3951 x 1875 (1.26 MB) |
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