Airbus made the first test of its Beluga XL transport plane

London / Toulouse, July 21 (TASR) – Airbus for the first time at the Farnborough Air Force Fair in London does not offer its A380 traffic giant

Speculation on the stoppage of the Superjumba production appeared in the autumn of last year. it was not clear if Emirates would order new machines.

In Farnborough, the director of Airbus Manufacturing, Tom Williams, was even more depressed by them. He was convinced that the A380 had the best time to come. This should come in the next decade. For next year, they should leave only eight in the meeting room.

Williams reiterated his concern about the upcoming Brexite. Airbus produces wings in Britain. The group's management has recently threatened to cancel its production on the islands

At the trade show in Britain, it was not even its new Beluga XL transport plane. His first test flight took place in France on Thursday 19 July.

Airbus has been developing and manufacturing giant transport aircraft for more than 20 years. He wants to be able to efficiently transport large aircraft components from manufacturing to assembly plants

The Belugy XL prototype has been unloaded after more than four hours and 11 minutes at the airport from Toulouse

The transport space of the machine is overwhelming. For example, there are seven elephants or two wings for the A350. The smallest precursor of Belugy, its official name being A300-600ST, managed to carry only one wing. The new Beluga has a height of 18.90 meters, a length of 63.10 meters and a wingspan of 60.3 meters. Uvezie 53 tonnes of freight, which corresponds to 37 adult whales bearing the name

The Airbus management has decided to produce a giant transport aircraft at the end of 2014. In 2019 will deploy the first machine to the transport of merchandise. The cost of development and production of five new aircraft is one billion euros

Airbus plans to produce five Belugg XLs by 2023. It will have them for their own needs. The five smallest Belgians that he uses now will be phased out.

The Beluga XL does not yet have the necessary tests, so that the builder can ask the EASA (European Aviation Safety Agency) to put the authorization in normal operation. While he may ask, the machine must fly about 600 hours.