Airbus fetes first flight of its new 'whale in the sky'
AFP
| 2018/07/19 | 183 words
| LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY
European aerospace giant Airbus conducted Thursday the first test flight of the giant new Beluga XL, an even bigger version of the company's workhorse transport plane which has been in service since the mid 1990s.Decorated for the occasion as a "whale in the sky", the plane's crew took off at exactly 10:30 am to a cheering crowd of 10,000 people at Airbus's facility in Toulouse, southern France.The A330-743L Beluga XL has grown six meters (20 feet) longer and one metre wider from the Beluga ...(…)
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