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