About Jason Fried
Jason co-founded Basecamp back in 1999. He also co-authored REWORK, the New York Times bestselling book on running a "right-sized" business. Co-founded, co-authored... Can he do anything on his own?
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jessecoombs
on 15 Jun 10Is that real?
Saverio Mondelli
on 15 Jun 10Yep, they used to use this bad boy to transport parts. It’s actually (ironically) a modified boeing plane. Not sure if that’s 100% right though.
mikhailov
on 15 Jun 10Skylink powered by Airbus? :)
Keith
on 15 Jun 10Check our airliners.net for more on the Super Guppy…
cmi
on 15 Jun 10or check wikipedia :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guppy_(disambiguation)
Stefan Upmeier zu Belzen
on 15 Jun 10This is the result of designing european airplane production by national intrests.
Stefan Upmeier zu Belzen
on 15 Jun 10... and finally they changed the name from guppy to beluga ;-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_Beluga
Nick
on 15 Jun 10My initial thought is a disaster waiting to happen.
Anonymous Coward
on 15 Jun 10Nick: Your initial thought was wrong. Never crashed. No disasters. Makes you rethink your assumptions, eh?
James
on 15 Jun 10@Anonymous Well there’s no need to be an asshole about it.
Florian
on 15 Jun 10The Guppy is now… a Beluga :
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Airbus-Industrie/Airbus-A300B4-608ST-Super/1664881/
John Beckett
on 15 Jun 10Now who wants to bet that you could fit more economy class seats in that thing than in an A380? :)
John Beckett
on 15 Jun 10@ Saverio: I looked it up out of interest, and the original Super Guppies were based on a Boeing 377, but the current one (the ‘Beluga’) is in fact based on an Airbus A300.
And I’m with Nick that at first glance you wonder how the thing can fly, even though we all obviously know that it can.
Anonymous Coward
on 15 Jun 10@John —seats?! Shoot, stack ‘em like cordwood…
Mark
on 15 Jun 10Years ago, I worked at NASA in Houston and actually saw one of these bad boys coming in for a landing at Ellington Field. People were pulled off all over the freeway just to gawk. It was awesome to watch.
As far as flying capability though, I’ve never been able to fathom just how the 747 which piggy backs the Shuttle even gets off the ground. Talk about a talented pilot with a steady hand.
Ran Barton
on 18 Jun 10Boeing now uses a small fleet of heavily modified 747 aircraft to move parts about for its 787 program.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747_Large_Cargo_Freighter
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