[Closed] Beasts of burden (Another aero-anorak thread!)

This is a proper Hercules. Carries badness and guns.

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And am RAF VC10 tanker/ transport.

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Piggyback...

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and how about a Guppy...

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Eee when I were a lad I went to Manchester to see the 747 shuttle piggy back flypast. Ace. Used to get a fair few Guppies too.

Isn't that a beluga ( not guppy)?
I remember the guppy, then the pregnant guppy! Then came the beluga.

[i]Isn't that a beluga ( not guppy)? [/i]

Yes but just before the edit time ran out I changed the pic from a Guppy and didn't have time to change the text 😳

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And an Andover for good measure
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[i]Finally, for the rotary freaks, a Halo[/i]

Image posting FAIL.
There's only one real heavy lift helicopter:
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Lives at Popham: I give you the AN2 - the largest single-engined aircraft around, I believe...

PS - I thought the 'Fat Albert' was the 737...

There's only one real heavy lift helicopter

Nah, [i]this[/i] is a heavy lift helicopter - Mil mi-26 'Halo':
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Note what it's just deposited on the ground ;O)The gearbox / transmission alone weighs in at 3.5 tonnes.

Julian, always nice to see that beast!

C130 always known as a Fat Albert as far as I know.

Goon, that's some serious lifting!

The classic Beast of burden has to be what flew over me on Sunday

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Or for a certain singlespeedy rough and ready ethos

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Due to poor sentence construction, I shoukld point out that it's the gear box of the 'Halo' itself that is 3.5 tonnes. The payload it's capable of lifting is around 20 tonnes.

If you can track down the 'Helicopter' episode of Massive Machines you'll see Chris Barrie sat on the rotor hub, which gives a view of the scale of the machine.

Beverley! Retro!

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Hungry helicopter:

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The C130 in the first pic is the only one known as Fat Albert.

The 737-100 and 200 series were occasionly called Fat Albert but the name hasn't stuck with later variants as they've got longer and lost the short and stubby look.

As for the beasts of burden I've always liked these.

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We had one in at Wellington a couple of months ago. Looked good on departure with an aircraft with a MTOW of 585,000lbs rotating just past the midpoint on a runway just over 2000m long. Pretty impressive short field performance

Surely that airbus is the perfect example of why large things should be sent by sea rather than plane? 😀

When I did contract work at Lyneham, the Hercs were always called Fat Alberts, and that was 20 years ago.

In all my time working in aviation I've never heard a C130 (other than the C130T above) called Fat Albert.

I'm not saying you're wrong by the way, I know that different fields of aviation call different aircraft by different names. I've always just called the C130 whichever variant they are