Airbus gets a new freighter – and its giant door – into the air for the first time
In the past, it also made custom freighters that featured a bulbous enclosure atop a fuselage adapted from an A330 or A300. Airbus named the planes “Beluga” because they looked a little like a whale. REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); The BelugaST, based on the A300, mostly did duty carrying Airbus’ own cargo between factories.
- ▪In the past, it also made custom freighters that featured a bulbous enclosure atop a fuselage adapted from an A330 or A300.
- ▪Airbus named the planes “Beluga” because they looked a little like a whale.
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); The BelugaST, based on the A300, mostly did duty carrying Airbus’ own cargo between factories.
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