{"id":172446,"date":"2025-02-03T21:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/before-beluga-boeing-377-guppies\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T21:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T11:00:15","slug":"before-the-airbus-beluga-what-to-know-about-boeings-giant-377-guppies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=172446","title":{"rendered":"Before The Airbus Beluga: What To Know About Boeing&#8217;s Giant 377 Guppies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"259652\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/airbus-beluga\/\"  >Airbus Beluga<\/a><\/span> is one of the world&#8217;s most iconic aircraft, instantly recognizable for its whale-shaped fuselage, hence the &#8216;Beluga&#8217; name. The outsize cargo plane, initially known as the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58499\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/airbus\/\"  >Airbus<\/a><\/span> A300-600ST Super Transporter before the development of the even larger BelugaXL, was created to help Airbus transport large components needed to build its planes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airbus used to fly four Boeing Super Guppy cargo planes before developing the Beluga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2912,2913,396,398,13670,567],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-beluga","category-airbus-belugaxl","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-boeing-377-stratocruiser","category-guides"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172447,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172446\/revisions\/172447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}