It was the first flight of the Airbus BelugaXL

July 21, 2018 – 17:17
The colossal Airbus aircraft has finally made its first flight test.

This is a new version of the aircraft used by the company for its manufacturing logistics tasks, the famous Beluga, which began operations in 1995 and which was a variant of the l & # 3939; A300-600. This new version is known as BelugaXL and now it looks like a flying whale.

This is a cargo plane designed to carry large pieces of other airplanes. This new Airbus BelugaXL is the first of the five aircraft to be built in

A flying beast with a carrying capacity of 51 tons

The Airbus BelugaXL began its planning in November 2014, and now, almost four years later, he made his first flight test. This flight lasted 4 hours and 11 minutes and was performed in Toulouse-Blagnac, France, where the Airbus assembly plant is located.

This new BelugaXL has a 30% higher transport capacity, so it can carry up to 51 tons in the warehouse with a maximum distance of 4,000 kilometers. Its total weight is 125 tons and its design is based on the Airbus A330-200 airliner

between 2019 and 2023, and will eventually retire to the current five BelugaSTs.

[19659003] Compared to the BelugaST, this new BelugaXL measures 6.1 meters more and one meter more. Its dimensions are 63.1 meters long, 18.9 meters high, a wingspan of 60.3 meters, a huge 8.8-meter bubble fuselage and equipped with Rolls Royce Trent 700 engines. [19659003] Piloting is on the bottom of the fuselage, allowing for greater freedom in the cargo area, in addition to taking advantage of the entire structure, ranging from the cargo hold, back and tail of the aircraft. With this, he will now have the ability to carry two airplane wings instead of just one.

After its first test flight, the BelugaXL will have to perform 600 hours of flight over 10 months, this in order to obtain its certification and its ability to go into operation at the end of 2019.

C & Is so that the Airbus event took place in its headquarters in France, where the BelugaXL was presented to more than 10,000 people who attended its first takeoff, no impact

Source: Xataka