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, ...

Ten years after launching the programme, Airbus has brought its high-capacity BelugaXL fleet up to its full capacity of six aircraft following the introduction of the initial airframe, which had been ...

Boeing and Airbus dominate the global commercial aviation industry today and produce the aircraft that form the core of most airline fleets around the world. Their jets are assembled from millions of ...

Airbus recently made a big splash with its design for the latest version of its Beluga transport airplane, and now the company reports the first of five aircraft has successfully finished its first ...

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 ...

The Airbus BelugaXL is the company's super transporter built to transport very large aircraft components, such as wings and tail plane sections. With a cargo capacity of 78,000 cubic feet (2,209 cubic ...

The nose-loading freighter shipped an Airbus-made satellite from Toulouse, France, to Florida. The mammoth BelugaST is deployed to transport oversized items like satellites and helicopters. In 1994, ...

Airbus has rolled out the sixth and final example of its BelugaXL high-capacity transport, designed to fly aerostructures between the airframer’s manufacturing facilities. The BelugaXL – formally ...

There’s something about veteran ships and aircraft that commands respect and admiration, which is why many of us would like to see them continue their career in a different form instead of ending up ...

The first large sections of Airbus' next generation new transport aircraft, the BelugaXL, have arrived at the aircraft Final Assembly facility (L34) in Toulouse. Following a five night long road ...