The Beluga cargo aircraft, named after the white whale because of its shape, is celebrating twenty years of transporting Airbus component parts between Airbus’ European manufacturing sites this week.
The aircraft made its maiden flight on September 13, 1994. Since 1995, the fleet of five Beluga aircraft replaced the ageing Super Guppy transporters in order to supply the Airbus final assembly lines in Toulouse and Hamburg. Today, more than sixty flights are performed each week between eleven sites, carrying crucial parts for all of…
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