Should make A380 freighters but that would be admitting it's a failure as a passenger jet.
Posted on 07/20/2018 11:53:25 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The super-transporter is one of the largest aircraft in existence, six meters longer and one meter wider than its predecessor, the BelugaST transporter. The flight, which took-off from Blagnac in Toulouse, signified the start of a 10-month testing period before the plane can start flying commercially. Typically, the Beluga series has been used by Airbus to transport aircraft wings from factories to its assembly lines in Europe.
One wing factory is sited at Hawarden airport in North Wales. To allow the supersized plane to land, Hawarden is erecting new blast fences and resurfacing its runway.
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In the center section of the painted black line wich represents its “mouth” the windshield can be see if you enlarge the photo. Disarmingly cute.
Should make A380 freighters but that would be admitting it's a failure as a passenger jet.
“......ripoff of a Boeing design.”
Take some time, and read at the following site:
http://www.allaboutguppys.com/sg/377sgf.htm
I suppose I found it fun to read the article, because I used to watch these things take off, and land when I was a kid working on the Long Beach Airport. Lots of memories.
It couldn’t carry both him and his lunch.
How do they compete, unless heavily subsidized by their governments? I guess I answered my own question.
And the US Guppys were props.
Never flown this one but I have flown the A380 several times.A nice aircraft for sure but I’ll take the new 747 any day.
bttt
“So long and thanks for all the fish!”
All that space for stuff and it cant lift one M-1 tank off the ground?
C-5 Galaxy its NOT.
I was surprised that there are only two engines.
I like the way they did the eyes.
Yep. Kewl.
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