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Airbus's (or should that be Airbus' ???) newest recruit is going to be visiting the UK this Valentines Day; the Beluga XL is scheduled to have a little tour around the various manufacturing bases of the consortium. If you're up around and about, you may well see it, although with a 30% bigger cargo bay than a 'standard' Beluga ST it would be hard to miss, even from the ground....

https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/ch ... a-15799627

Airbuses

I don't get it. From the video an XL fuselage fits inside and is delivered by a standard Beluga. Help!

Anyway, I will drive up to Filton to see it land ................oh, wait.............

Looks a bit short of fin/rudder area but I guess the "pod" contributes aerodynamically. Wonder what happens after B..... !

ozplane wrote:Wonder what happens after B..... !

Balaenoptera musculus, Blue Whale.

Watch this space

Assuming you did mean Beluga

At least the article talks of "Airbus' site at Filton, near Bristol". The local (Gloucester/Cheltenham) paper article had an article headlined "where you can see [the Beluga] in Gloucestershire .. after [its] flypast at Filton in Bristol"

[Filton is, of course, not in Bristol. It is in South Gloucestershire. And the Beluga's undercarriage is a Gloucestershire, Dowty er Messier-Bugatti-Dowty er Safran, anyway Staverton product I don't know whether Staverton flypast , preferably undercarriage down, is to be included; it would be good to see ]

Very good Lockhaven but no I didn't mean Beluga!

Boxkite

The delivery was of a standard fuselage hence why it fit (fitted?) in the standard Beluga.

Later in the film you see it modded ready for the hi-top.