Airbus Defence and Space has developed and tested a loading system to lift outsized military cargo into the Airbus Beluga A300-600ST aircraft. The capability was successfully tested during a ...

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 service ...

It's a tough time to be an enormous aircraft these days, just ask the Boeing 747 that went out of production at the end of 2022. Now, after killing off its own super-sized passenger plane in 2021, ...

There’s still no word on whether pigs can fly but you aren’t going crazy if you spot a whale soaring past your window anytime soon. That’s because Airbus’s Beluga XL aircraft — nicknamed the “whale in ...

One of the aviation world’s most hotly anticipated planes, the Airbus Beluga XL, has just completed a key round of testing at Hawarden Airport in Wales, ahead of entering service later this year. At a ...

Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s … a beluga whale? Aerospace manufacturer Airbus recently debuted a new cargo plane, the A330-700L, affectionately known as the Beluga. Built to ...

Airbus has installed the main freight door on the first example of its new Beluga XL outsize transport. The airframer disclosed in September that it had received the door, which has been produced by ...

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Airbus received its final BelugaXL freighter in July 2023, used mostly to transport airplane parts. The jet replaced the old Beluga "Super Transporter" as Airbus' airliner production rates increased.