As an aircraft type reaches the end of its service life, examples of it flying commercially become rarer and rarer (the ...

The origins of the Airbus Beluga . Airbus has long grappled with the problem of needing to transport components around due to ...

2 Auxiliary Fuel Tanks (ACTs) for over 4000 nm of range non-stop (Middle East to Europe - Europe to US East Coast – Asia to Middle East) ...

(Photo: Airbus) The unique aircraft’s design is based on an A300-600 and borrows features from the beluga whale, a species ...

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The Beluga -- billed by Airbus as the world's biggest cargo plane in terms of volume transported -- looks something like a whale, with a rounded fuselage mounted on an Airbus A300-600 base.

with a rounded fuselage mounted on an Airbus A300-600 base. Big enough to carry two full-size helicopters of the Super-Puma type, the mega-transporter was brought into service in 1995 specifically to ...