Posted on 01/22/2015 8:41:56 AM PST by BenLurkin
The Beluga can carry the wings of an A340 airliner or a fuselage section for Airbus' newest wide-body aircraft, the A350.
But it's not large enough to transport many A380 super jumbo parts. Those need to travel by boat, barge and road.
With a diameter of 7.1 meters, the Beluga has an incredibly large cargo hold. Though its maximum payload of 47 tons is surpassed by only a handful of cargo aircraft, the hold makes it good for oversized but not particularly heavy cargo.
With a diameter of 7.1 meters, the Beluga has an incredibly large cargo hold. Though its maximum payload of 47 tons is surpassed by only a handful of cargo aircraft, the hold makes it good for oversized but not particularly heavy cargo.
With the A300 now out of service, the new Belugas will be based on the Airbus A330 and be bigger than the existing fleet. While the current planes can only carry one wing for the new A350 at a time, the new jet will be able to take on board both on the same flight.
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Keep the thing away from thunderstorms.
Airbus has not exactly been scoring big in that arena.
Great pics!
That thing would look cool with a skull face painted on the front.
Not a new concept.
B-377SG Super Guppy Flew 1965
A modified Boeing Stratocruiser, which was a modified B-29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aero_Spacelines_Super_Guppy
yes it wou!d or i am thinking a ‘predator’ mask or face
(even hang the dreadlocks off the sides)
Seriously, though, it looks a little top-heavy to me
I see a triple decker airliner in that airframes future.
Airbus contracted with Aero Spacelines to buy the first two 377SGT Super Guppys and to have them build two more Super Guppys to use as part of their production-line process.
Eventually, all airplanes wear out, especially those used on a regular schedule. The Beluga was the replacement for their fleet of four Super Guppys.
The first was retired to British Aviation Heritage in Bruntingthorpe, England. Number two was retired to the Airbus final assembly plant in Toulouse, France. Number three is proudly parked in front of the main entrance of the DASA factory in Finkenwerder, Germany.
Number four, the 'youngest' of the 377SGT fleet, was acquired by NASA from the European Space Agency under an International Space Station barter agreement. ESA supplied the Guppy to offset the cost to NASA of carrying ESA experiment equipment to the station as part of two future Space Shuttle flights. It continues to soldier on carrying out-sized cargo for NASA.
See: All About Guppys
Put Eric Holder's face on the front. His forehead would fit.
Those fly over my place on their approach to Paine - pretty impressive.
(Yes, I am kidding.)
“It’s NOT a toomah!”
Visions of I Dream of Jeannie when Jeannie didn’t want Maj. Nelson sailing on a big cement ship.
Or an alien. It has the same shape as the "typical" alien face.
It’s not that bad of an idea.
The 747 has a wing hardpoint (inside of the inner port engine) for ferrying an engine.
Tiger Woods?
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