A NASA Super Guppy transport plane "swallowed" two NASA T-38 aircraft whole
March 18, right out on NASA Dryden Flight Research Center's back
ramp.
The SGT Super Guppy-Turbine, the last of its kind still flying, is
based at Ellington Airport in Houston, near NASA's Johnson Space Center. The
aircraft was at Dryden to transport the two T-38s that Dryden hasn't flown in
several years and are no longer airworthy to El Paso, Texas, where they will be
cannibalized for parts to keep other Johnson-operated T-38s in El Paso flying.
After removing the wings and other usable components, the remaining portions of
the airframes will be trucked to the Air Force's Aerospace Maintenance and
Recovery Center adjacent to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base near Tucson, Ariz., for
final disposition.
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