Birthing a Beluga

The Airbus Beluga XL, based on today’s A330 jetliner, will have an enlarged fuselage “bubble” section that is six meters longer and one meter wider than that of the Beluga ST – an aircraft derived from Airbus’ earlier-production A300-600.  Here is a picture of the...

Beluga XL design freeze

Airbus announced that it has achieved design freeze on its next generation internal freighter, named Beluga.  The newer, larger, aircraft is to be called the Beluga XL.  You can see the original Beluga here, it is based on the A300.  The new version is based on the...