On Thursday, Airbus BelugaXL successfully took flight
for the first time on the sky of southwest France. It’s a highly-modified version of
the Airbus A330-200 jetliner and is largest aircraft in existence, six
meters longer and one meter wider than its predecessor, the BelugaST
transporter. 20,000 people
voted for its paint job as
"whale face".
Before plane
started working commercially, it was on 10-month testing period and then took-off from Blagnac in
Toulouse. Normally, Typically, the Beluga series has been used by Airbus to transport
aircraft wings from factories to its assembly lines in Europe.
One wing
factory is in North Wales at Hawarden airport for the large sized planes to
land. Hawarden is also placing new blast fences and resurfacing its runway.
Paint Job
The aircraft represents its name Beluga Whale after new paint job done.
Design was selected by poll of 20,000 people. Airbus said the aircraft is
the first of five BelugaXL’s to enter service during 2019.
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