NASA 's Super Guppy delivers space shuttle trainer to the Museum of Flight

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A crew member of the Super Guppy cargo plane leans from the cockpit window as the plane is hooked to a tug outside the Museum of Flight Saturday, delivering part of the NASA space shuttle trainer.

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NASA's Super Guppy aircraft, carrying crew compartment of the space shuttle trainer, makes a flyover around downtown Seattle on its way to The Museum of Flight.

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The Super Guppy delivers plenty of cargo and decibels as it arrives at the Museum of Flight Saturday.

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The front part of the Super Guppy cargo plane is cracked open as it swings forward 90-degrees so the space shuttle trainer can be unloaded Saturday.

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The front part of the shrink-wrapped Space Shuttle trainer is moved on a specialty vehicle with the Super Guppy in the background, its cargo bay and cockpit area at a 90-degree angle at Boeing Field. The vehicle moving the trainer part was brought up from JBLM to assist.

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