Super Cargo Aircraft

This might be common knowledge to others, especially if you’re an aircraft nut, but there are planes that are designed to take oversized cargo, like other plane bits. This might sound pretty ordinary, but the amazing part is they are built on the base fuselage of normal planes, then just stretched out in the middle. The first series were called the Guppy series made by Aero Spaclines, and the coolest of which is the Super Guppy. It’s still used by NASA, and for a long time was used by Airbus to fright its parts. The cool thing is it’s based on a Boeing 377, so the running joke was that every Airbus was built on the wings of a Boeing. ;) It first flew in 1965.

Of course Airbus couldn’t keep making their planes with a Boeing, so they made the Airbus Beluga, a pimped out A300-600 that first flew in 1995. Fatta than yo momma.

Once Airbus got in on the act, Boeing had to give it a crack, and popped out the Dreamlifter in 2006. This fatty is based on the familiar 747-400, but you gotta admit the Frenchie design above looks way weirder and cooler.