A BelugaXL (Airbus A330-700L) – with whale-themed paint job – has completed its first test flight. The transport aircraft will be used to carry Airbus airplane parts.

Airbus would put aside a small budget of 1 billion euros for the project, for development and production. they would call the ...

If you look up and see what looks like a whale in the sky, don’t be surprised. The Airbus Beluga XL, a massive super-transporter cargo plane that closely resembles a whale, is now in full-time ...

The Airbus Beluga, one of the world’s strangest airplanes, now has its own airline. The odd-looking, oversized cargo plane — a favorite among planespotters around the world — has been in ...

Built around the Airbus A330, the Beluga XL is one of the largest cargo planes in the world. It was first unveiled back in November 2014 and the first aircraft took to the skies in July 2018 ...

That Airbus was going to operate a mixed fleet for some time was planned from the start and had a strong influence on the design of the A330-based Beluga XL.

First Airbus A380 jets to be broken up for parts ... New Beluga XL undergoing vibration testing. First flight due in the summer “With more than 48 tests already completed, ...

European aerospace giant Airbus has conducted the first test flight of the giant new Beluga XL, an even bigger version of the company's workhorse transport plane which has been in service since the ...

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