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Now Steve, on the other hand, wins the prize for tieing it all together in his 2nd picture: The plane in that shot IS a modified Stratocruiser, one of a few that were done that way in the 60's. Growing up in HSV, I remember seing the "Guppy" series planes coming in to pick up the rocket parts from Redstone Arsenal/Marshall Space flight Center. Sometimes they would float them down the Tenn. River on barges, but sometimes the "Guppies" would come in a pick some parts up. My Dad was UAL stn mgr. in HSV at the time after he quit flying for CAL after the merger, so I got to see tons of that stuff come & go.