Kimalu (KEE-ma-loo), a 12-year-old female beluga whale, is resting comfortably following a historic procedure at Chicago's ...

The Airbus Beluga XL is not your typical aircraft; it’s a flying giant designed to carry the largest and heaviest components of the aerospace industry. As the successor to the original Airbus ...

Once it safely landed in Birmingham on Wednesday, airport workers and plane enthusiasts were given the rare chance to see a Beluga XL up close. The Beluga XL1 was flying from Hamburg in Germany to ...

The plane has now safely landed in Birmingham, giving people there a rare chance to see a Beluga XL up close. A spokesperson for Airbus Broughton said: "We can confirm that due to fog in Broughton ...

According to Airbus, the Beluga XL measures 207 feet in length, 62 feet in height, and boasts a wingspan of nearly 198 feet. It can carry a maximum payload of 51 tonnes, surpassing the 44-tonne ...

The Beluga XL can carry a maximum payload of 51 tonnes, surpassing the Beluga ST’s capacity of 44 tonnes. It also has a range of 4,000 kilometers (2,200 nautical miles).

The length of the Beluga XL at 63.1 m is almost twice that of an Airbus A320 aircraft that commonly flies on domestic routes and is 37.6 m long. Its height is 18.9 m against an A320 that is 11.8 m ...

The Airbus Beluga landed at the UK's busiest airport with a cargo of spare parts to repair a damaged British Airways plane that has been left stranded at the airport due to a minor collision, the ...

The Airbus BelugaXL has a 60.3-meter wingspan, and its fuselage is 63.1 meters long. It also has height of 18.9 meters, while two Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engines — some of the most revolutionary ...

As its gargantuan dimensions would suggest, the XL was created to carry something significantly larger than passengers. In May 2024, CNN quoted Airbus Beluga Transport's Benoît Lemonnier as ...

Longer and bigger than the ST, the Beluga XL is capable of carrying both wings, rather than just one, of the Airbus A350, the company’s latest long-haul aircraft that rivals the Boeing 787 and 777.