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@bmw_m4255

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the meetup

@vishnu9264

9 ай бұрын

how to sign up for the Boeing session?

@737Garrus

9 ай бұрын

Fucking *No!*

@MentourNow

9 ай бұрын

@@737Garrus Really? 3 seconds of a sponsor message brings out that reaction? I currently employ 5 people to help me with research, editing, graphics and script-writing for both channels. I pay these people their salaries and to do that, I need sponsorships, hence the 3 seconds that you needed to endure. I know free is always good but the truth is that the money to produce has to come from somewhere so unless you want to start paying for content, I’m afraid you will have to endure this from me and basically every other channel out there.

@bmw_m4255

9 ай бұрын

@@MentourNow don't worry about that guy!

I live near an Airbus site and regularly get to see the Belugas. It's great to spot one.

@MentourNow

9 ай бұрын

Very cool!

@cryptoslacker-464

8 ай бұрын

I would love to see one in the wild ❤😮🎉

In the late 1960s my dad (a draftsman) worked on the Super Guppy for Aero Spacelines in Santa Barbara, California. We attended the rollout ceremony for a newly-built Super Guppy. I was 9 or 10, and have never forgotten the excitement at the ceremony or how proud my dad was to have been part of the project. I've already sent the link for this video to my sisters. One is old enough to remember the event, for the other two this will be glimpse into a part of my dad's life they didn't know about.

@The_ZeroLine

9 ай бұрын

I’m in SB right now. Does you or part of your family still live there?

@bossytuba

9 ай бұрын

@@The_ZeroLine We're from SLO county, and I still have a ton of relatives there. My dad used to make the commute every day.

@The_ZeroLine

9 ай бұрын

@@bossytuba Pretty drive. If you still lived there, you’d get to see Falcon Heavies and other rockers lifting off nearly weekly.

I'm amazed at how there really is a lineage between the Guppies and the Belugas -- and in an ironic way how Boeing helped Airbus succeed!

@MentourNow

9 ай бұрын

Yep! It’s really fascinating

@todortodorov940

9 ай бұрын

Helped and helped. Boeing produced some aircraft, who others later bought to use their parts and build their own aircraft.

@NicolaW72

9 ай бұрын

@@todortodorov940 Indeed.

@enigmawyoming5201

8 ай бұрын

@ 5:03. You refer to a man “called” John Michael Conroy. “Called” and “Named” are two different concepts. I can “CALL” John a liar. John is “NAMED” John. Incorrect to say John is “called” John unless your are “calling” him something other that the name he was given at birth.

@brianafc

7 ай бұрын

Airbus returned the favour by offering help to solve the 737 max issue too

I knew about the Guppy and Super Guppy, but not it's fantastic history. Thanks for the video Petter!

@MentourNow

9 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

@volvo09

9 ай бұрын

Happy to see a video on these aircraft, so unique.

@theonlymadmac4771

9 ай бұрын

I remember reading books in the 60ies about the Guppies as a kid! Thanks a lot for bringing my knowledge of those flying fish up to date

I live in Houston, Texas and have seen the super guppy on final into Ellington Field several times and each time I’m reminded of the Douglas Adams quote: “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”

@johnstreet797

7 ай бұрын

42

9:55 Honestly Clay Lacy deserves a video just on him given his honestly crazy career (he’s still alive btw). Filmed the XB-70 crash, 29 world speed records, flew a group of students around the world on a dc-8, around the world speed record (just over 36 hours) with a Boeing SP (Neil Armstrong was aboard), technically time traveled, flew a dc-7 in a pylon air race (6th out of 20th), helped develop Aerial cinematography and more! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_Lacy

@valeriawinklerova7430

4 ай бұрын

my favourite plane is super guppy and your video is so cool!!!😃😃

When Mentour Pilot and Mentour Now both upload, it’s a good weekend

@buidelrat132

9 ай бұрын

Can you imagine the awesomeness if they collaborated? ;)

@heidirabenau511

9 ай бұрын

​@@buidelrat132Before someone says "bUt it's tHe sAmE PeRsOn!" Have you ever seen Mentour Pilot and Mentour Now in the same room?

@nowapproachingyt

9 ай бұрын

@@heidirabenau511ah yes that is one way to confuse half of the internet. Well played

@owensparks5013

9 ай бұрын

​@buidelrat132 I was wondering about some sort of disgruntled rivalry...

@parkermezek1084

9 ай бұрын

And 74 gear as well!

I love the passion you have for aviation, and for sharing your knowledge with all of us. It’s awesome when you love your work.

@MentourNow

9 ай бұрын

Thank you very much, it really is!

There is one preserved in Toulouse, just outside the airbus facilities. The hinging front door / cockpit was also a problem during windy days. At (at least) one point the hinge broke from a gust of wind. They fixed the plane but never reinforced the mechanism: the hinge was used as a fuse not to break or bend the main structure of the fuselage if extreme forces were to be applied

@MentourNow

9 ай бұрын

Awesome extra info! Thanks!

@NicolaW72

9 ай бұрын

@@MentourNow One Super Guppy, which was preserved at the Airport of Bruntingthorpe in England, was unfortunately broken up and scrapped in December 2020 during the Pandemic. The remaining Super Guppy is preserved at the Airport of Hamburg-Finkenwerder, the Airbus Company Airport in Hamburg (Germany).

@jean-lucslr7022

7 ай бұрын

2 time.

@pizzablender

6 ай бұрын

That plane in Toulouse is part of the museum exhibition there, right? At least it was when I was visiting.

@NicolaW72

6 ай бұрын

@@pizzablender Yes.

My Dad was a truck driver most of my life. Back in the late 60s he used to haul Rocketdyne J-2 engines used on the upper stages of the Saturn V. The J-2s were just small enough to be hauled by truck. The 1st stage F-1s had to go by barge or Guppy.

"every Airbus is delivered on the wings of a Boeing”

@jean-lucslr7022

7 ай бұрын

yep !!

The day is great when a new mentour video comes out!

It's so great one of the Guppys is still flying. And for NASA no less.

@stefanlaskowski6660

9 ай бұрын

It's home based on El Paso, Texas, and I see it regularly from where I work, which is just east of El Paso International Airport.

@Hans-gb4mv

9 ай бұрын

Sometimes I feel like NASA is where legends go before retirement. The Guppy is not the only aircraft that got a last career at NASA, there have been others like the Tu-144.

@Matticitt

9 ай бұрын

@@stefanlaskowski6660 that's cool

@gearguy65

9 ай бұрын

N941NA in El Paso!

Thanks for labouring on two great episodes for us this weekend Mentour Pilot/Now! Really enjoyed the Tulsa landing recap and the Super Guppy tales! It’s been a whale of a great set of stories!

@MentourNow

9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

My Parents flew to Nigeria for years in the Stratocruiser, operated by BOAC. Downstairs bar and freedom to wander about... how cool is that?

As a space nerd who's going to school for A&P license right now, the Guppy holds a special place in my heart! Fantastic video, loving the classic aircraft series

@MentourNow

9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@glenniz1

8 ай бұрын

I was a student at Northrup University 1979-1980. It was an amazing experience, and I enjoyed every moment I was there. I wish you all the best in school, and in your career as an A&P Mechanic, not many people get to do what they love, and get paid for it during their lifetime!

I've had the pleasure of seeing the 4th Super Guppy fly and land at the Mesa Gateway airport here in AZ. Quite surreal to see something like that in the air!

This is by far one of my favorite mentor (now or pilot) videos. Please keep them coming!

@MentourNow

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! I really loved this one as well

It is amazing how aviation evolved from the wright's brothers plane to WWI biplanes to huge piston engine planes and turboprops to finaly the planes we fly and love. Love the concept of reviewing a few commercial planes that marked history. Really makes me wonder what we will develope in the future.

@Wintermute909

9 ай бұрын

It really is amazing, both world wars seem to have been big drivers of the leaps in aviation technology.

@NicolaW72

9 ай бұрын

@@Wintermute909 Yes, probably and also in a way unfortunately.

There is one at Toulouse. You can actually go insinde and I recommend the visit of the museum where you can also see two concorde

When I travelled to the US in 2022 I went inside a superguppy and it was all so exciting. Nice to learn more about the Supper guppy and the stratocrusier. It’s a rather unique aircraft.

I was thrilled to see this video. Was stationed at Mather AFB in Sacramento, CA, for navigator training in 1965 and 1966. I can remember seeing the Pregnant Guppy flying nearby, possibly coming into or out of JPL. 9:55

One of the strangest and most fascinating planes ever built!!!

@MentourNow

9 ай бұрын

Absolutely!

@NicolaW72

9 ай бұрын

Indeed, exactly.

I first saw a picture of a Guppy in a book about different airplanes. This was about 1974-75 when I was 9-10. I remember thinking that it was a really strange airplane. We lived on the island of Guam at the time, and our house was on a hill very close to the approach to GUM, Guam International Airport. One day I heard an airplane, I looked up and there was a Guppy coming in for a landing. It was very strange to see an airplane, which seemed to have miniature wings, able to fly. I don't know if it was a Guppy or Super Guppy, I was just excited to see it. Thanks for the history of it.

The Guppy used to fly from Long Beach, California quite frequently and passed right over my house. I saw it many times and thought it was the most bizarre plane I'd ever seen! LOL. With Douglas Aircraft Co. based in Long Beach, I saw plenty of flights of Douglas aircraft being tested and flown, along with scheduled airline flights like PSA, Western and others.

@MentourNow

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

I like how aircraft is like puzzle ... getting all the parts from different aircraft XD

I always enjoy hearing about these planes. Great video.

@MentourNow

9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! 💕✈️

Petter, thank you! I've always loved these aircraft, but hadn't heard their full history. Everytime I see one, I smile as widely as does Airbus' Beluga XL!

Dad knew one of the flight test engineers who was killed in the crash of the Mini Guppy. The thing became unstable and went into a roll on takeoff. I don't know the reason. I would guess that low airspeed was involved.

Good grief what a superb video - awesome - thanks to all who helped put this together

I can almost park my car next to it at the El Paso International Airport but I've only seen it flying around the city a couple times.

Was a fan of the Guppy as a young fella in the mid 70s. A few aircraft library books had a right side view of this aircraft. Looks so graceful despite its massive size

4:56 That overlay is hilarious. Eek-eek EEEEEK!

I've been in the mini-guppy, it's currently on display at the Tillamook Air Museum in Tillamook Oregon. That museum is the site of an old US Navy blimp patrol station and hangar.

@NicolaW72

9 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for this information!🙂👍

19:30 hey wow, an amiga 1000. i had one of those, back in the 80s. yes, i'm old :-(

@arasb3258

9 ай бұрын

And it apears to be still running? That's super cool!

@volvo09

9 ай бұрын

​@@arasb3258it's just a visual affect... But there are vintage PC collectors, you can still find amigas.

@MentourNow

9 ай бұрын

I had the 1200!

You can see a Super-Guppy at the Aeroscopia museum in Toulouse, France next to the Airbus factory, you need at least half a day to visit the museum and if the factory is open to visitors, I'd say you'd need another half to visit it. We only had 2 hours to visit the Aeroscopia museum where we also saw a Concorde and an A380.

@NicolaW72

9 ай бұрын

Another one is preserved at the Airbus Company Airport in Hamburg-Finkenwerder in Germany. A third one, which was preserved at the Airport of Bruntingthorpe in England, was unfortunately broken up and scrapped in December 2020 during the Pandemic. Number Four is still flying, now for the NASA.

The Super Guppy 4 sounds like the Airplane of Theseus

i used to live about 2 miles from Nasa in Clear Lake TX and we used to see the guppy flying at times landing at Ellington Field. i remember the first time i saw it and did a double take and thought , “What the hell is that!” after finding out i looked up all the documentaries on this funny little plane and enjoyed watching it for years until i moved out of Houston. it really stands out while flying!

@MentourNow

9 ай бұрын

I'm sure it does!

Excellent, and rivetting, story, Petter. I really enjoyed that, and some connection to family history, too!

@MentourNow

9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! 💕💕✈️

Before the Belugas, the old joke was that 'every Airbus flew it's first flight on Boeing wings', as the fuselage and wing assemblies were flown to the factory in Toulouse/Hamburg for final assembly using Boeing Stratocruiser-based Super-Guppy turbines. The passenger Stratocruiser version had to be used as the basis, because the Stratofreighter (KC-97 Military Version) had a rear cargo door cut out, and as a result had insufficient strength to support the required Guppy structural modifications.

Was fun to see them flying over Santa Barbara back in the day.

If there's one thing I miss about living in Houston, it was seeing the guppy fly numerous times in and out of KEFD. Well that, and all the other cool NASA stuff

@makingbiscuits24-7

9 ай бұрын

It never gets old seeing it parked at Ellington. She's a beauty.

@The_Angry_Medic

9 ай бұрын

@@makingbiscuits24-7 I moved to California last year, and thought it was awesome that I drove by Edwards and Mojave. Then I realized it was the day before SOFIA's retirement flight 🤦🏼‍♂️

@makingbiscuits24-7

9 ай бұрын

@@The_Angry_Medic Bummer. It was sad news when I heard she was being retired. Such a neat design. I'm feeling nostalgic now. I need to take a drive by Ellington, Space Center Houston, and JSC soon.

Mentour Pilot and Mentour now are goats

@MentourNow

9 ай бұрын

💕💕💕😎

I had no idea how essential the Guppies were to NASA. I'll have to ask my grandfather about this!

It's impressive that this was a b-29 derivative and flought productively to our days. The b-29 spawn a suprising variety of aircraft. Its offsprings even include a chinese AWACS (KJ-1)

Its such a shame the one that was at bruntingtorpe England was broken up and only the cockpit survived. I remember being amazed by it as a kid and climbing on board.

@NicolaW72

9 ай бұрын

👍

@JohnHughesChampigny

9 ай бұрын

The English are barbarians.

Absolutely love aviation 👍🙏

I went to Oshkosh to attend AirVenture 2023 end of July and there’s a super Guppy showed up in that big square right there. That one must be the fourth one still flying you said so. There’s a lead engineer also told me there’re four of them. He looks like Maxican by the way🤔, should be Maxican American. That Super Guppy also flew up around Wittman airport afterwards, and I took some shots. Thanks Petter for more stories about these Super Guppy.

@MentourNow

9 ай бұрын

I would have loved to see it!

@willykang1293

9 ай бұрын

@@MentourNow you’ll absolutely see it at least once in your career.🙂

i don't work in the aviation industry, i don't even fly that much but i loooove nerding about planes on this channel

@MentourNow

9 ай бұрын

That's what we do!

Once again you came through with an awesome video

@MentourNow

9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! 😀

Boeing used to needle Airbus by saying, “Every Airbus was delivered on the wings of a Boeing.”

I have been a big fan of the Super Guppy and Airbus Beluga for quite a while now. I even have a model of the 2nd Beluga XL sitting on my flight simulator. But thanks to you, I have even more respect for the two fleets.

I worked and lived in Charleston county, SC for seven years. The plant that builds the 787 dream liners in located there. I never got tired of seeing the Dreamlifter flying in an out of the adjacent airport. Kind of a spiritual successor I feel.

This is so fascinating. Besides for the still operational guppy including a major component that flew parts for previous space programs, that part has got to be at least close to 70 years old.

11:40 Wonderful look back at the birth of the "Guppy" type logistics aircraft. Great job, as usual. Also, "disensemble" may be a new favorite word of the week. Keep coining those Petter-isms, and we'll keep watching! :)

Wow. I’m extremely happy you have finally made a mini documentary about it. I have the 1st Super Guppy Turbine (SGT1 for Airbus) in my local aviation museum in Wales. I have been in her over 35 times now and I always discover something new. The second one in Aeroscopia is a perfect condition one and felt like a time capsule! Truly an outstanding aircraft and I’m so glad to see someone’s made a video on it!

@h.dejong2531

9 ай бұрын

Where's that museum in Wales? I'd like to visit someday.

@leosimons77

8 ай бұрын

@@h.dejong2531 Hi it’s called South Wales Aviation Museum (SWAM) in St Athan near Cardiff Airport!

Would love a deep dive on Jack Conroy

@NicolaW72

9 ай бұрын

Yes!👍

It’s great to see and learn the history of the Super Guppy that we see fly around Kennedy Space Center. Keep up the amazing work!

The last superguppy's registration, N941NA is a 2001 reference; the dimensions of the Monolith are 9-4-1 (the squares of 3, 2, 1).

When I was a kid growing up in Southern California, Van Nuys National guard and airport was just south of us, and were under the landing path for anything that landed there. In addition to all the cool military planes we saw, the Guppy would fly over us at times. It was an incredable thing to see.

Another fascinating story and epic story telling. Thanks!

@MentourNow

9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! This was really fun to research

Thanks Petter. Nothing like a bit of aviation history to understand how we got to where we are now.

When I saw the photo of that Erickson Air Crane plane, it occurred to me that you might want to someday go off on a tangent, and investigate that company's operations. Not only did they use their helicopters for cranes in very specialized jobs, but they also used those helicopters for precision logging. They used to be a customer of mine. It was an impressive operation to see in full swing.

MENTOUR,an encyclopedia of knowledge not just aviation but a lot about human behaviour. Thanks for your hard work. It has/is very useful in my daily life. Changed my approaches to safety and team management.

We had a house near Ellington Field in Houston when I was a kid. I remember seeing the Super Guppy flew over the house on several occasions!

If you’re ever near Tucson, Arizona, USA; head over to the boneyard to see a Guppy. Pima Air & Space Museum

That mini guppy with the name "Erickson" is sitting at the Tillamook, OR air museum. And there is public access to the interior of it.

THEY LOOK SO GOOFY I LOVE THEM

The Super Guppy aircraft were always so fascinating to look at and see fly. This was a great tutorial and I always look forward to another one since you started this series on the aircraft themselves. Thanks for sharing this neat story.

@MentourNow

9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks Mentour for a very informative piece! And I love how passionate you are

@MentourNow

9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

I got the opportunity to see and touch that last guppy at an air show a year or two ago. They've always been one of my favorites since I was a kid.

Wow, I had no idea all these flying fish existed. Very interesting, informative, and as always, well written and narrated. Thank you.

Another great video! I’m a big fan if the Super Guppy and own a small piece of skin of the #1 airplane that was made into an aviation tag. It is also the first model I bought for my 1:400 airplane collection.

One of the most interesting videos you've ever made! I love the appearance of super guppy and belugas! They're unique and beautiful in their own bizarre way.

I really like the super guppy, great vid!

@MentourNow

9 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Truly, “The Flying Barn Door”.

Hell of a story. Takk så mycket Petter.😊😊😊

@MentourNow

9 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it! It’s one of my favorites

Aside from the Super Guppy, the Antonov with 6 engines and the 747 with the space shuttle attached are the weirdest planes I’ve ever seen in person.

I've been inside it for full tour. The space inside is just jawdropping.

I remember as a child back in the late 60s hearing a prop plane above, it was the Guppy. I thought that was one weird looking airplane. I lived in San Diego Ca. Which I believe at the time was still a major aerospace manufacturing center.

I have seen the super guppy at EAA this year for the first time they are big

I actually saw one of the Super Guppy planes land at Manchester Airport in 2019. It was a very unusual sight to see that day, as I'd only seen pictures of them.

They are the weirdest looking things ever & I love it.

This is a great story! Thanks for bringing this out. Continue to enjoy the Mentour Pilot channel. Keep up the great work! 😊

@MentourNow

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! Will do!

Your videos are great. Thank you.😊

@MentourNow

9 ай бұрын

Glad you like them!

Another beautiful aircraft, but in a very different way.

@MentourNow

9 ай бұрын

Indeed!

Aero Spacelines still had an 377 cockpit and nose section on site in the Mid 80s, when they were converting PanAm DC-10s to United configuration. The cockpit even had its sealed toilet with the sign "You use it, you clean it!"

...🤤 and a Universal Soldier reference ? I don't know what my own diagram looks like, but apparently it connects right here 😎👍

IIRC, from a documentary I once saw, part of the impetus for the development of the Beluga was an ad bragging that "Every Airbus takes its first flight on a Boeing."

So happy as a history nerd to have these great videos on commercial-aviation history and the evolution of these iconic aircraft.

One of the greatest aircraft documentaries of all time is "Flying through Time" and it speaks very highly of the Guppy and the Beluga. Shame we can't have a modern automated mating system on a plane like the guppy. With today's technology? the design is just pure weight saving.

I have seen a super-guppy at NASA in FL and there is also a museum Fantasy of Flight, they have a Lockheed Constellation in static display. Both really cool aircraft.

I knew that the Guppies are extremely interesting planes but I never dared to think they are THIS amazing! Thank you, Petter-the story is great but it is even greater as it is told. Thanks for your team, too-your videos are getting better and better!

I lived in Toulouse as a student and the sight of the Belugas going down to or out from Blagnac Airport where the main Airbus assembly factory is was always amazing. I didn't know Airbus first used the Guppies, that was an interesting video.

When I was a kid, *I watched a Guppy* take off out of San Diego regularly carrying DC-10 fuselage sections from Convair up to Douglas in Long Beach. Dad worked for Convair and led a team to redesign the DC-10 forward wheel because Douglas screwed up the design.

I got to tour an Airbus assembly plant in Germany in '96, and got to see a super guppy up close! They're amazing!

A fascinating aircraft that also inspired the 747-400LCF "Dreamlifter."

Super interesting history and it answered my biggest question. How they maintained the continuity of the flight controls with the door. Its true what they say, sometimes the simplest solution is the right one.

Another deep dive that would be interesting would be BEA. Also my great uncle was the artist who designed the BOAC logo referred to as the BOAC arrow. The BEA offices were in line with the runway at Northolt (then London) Airport and had tire tracks on the flat roof where pilots had come in a bit low. My mother worked there in the 1950s.