Comments by "Jack Voss" (@jackvoss5841) on "The Aero Spacelines Pregnant Guppy" video.

  1. The rocket shell, a large diameter tube that was all hollow, was built at Aerojet General in California. They were then trucked to Mather AFB. In the late 60s, I was stationed at Mather AFB at Rancho Cordova, just outside of Sacramento. A Pregnant Guppy would land at Mather to on-load the rocket shell for air transport to Cape Canaveral/Kennedy. This routinely occurred a couple of weeks prior to a scheduled launch date - a classified event. A pregnant Guppy is a big, odd looking aircraft; it sticks out like the Seattle Space Needle. My grade school kids would see it and casually remark, “Oh, there’s going to be a space shot in two weeks.” Military kids live as citizens of the world, and get to see many things that others do not. Courtesy of Half Vast Flying
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