The Airbus Beluga

Meet the whale of a plane designed to ferry oversized aircraft parts around the world

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As the aerospace industry boomed in the early 1990s, the infrastructure required to transport sections of an airplane became strained. The parts manufactured around Europe needed to come to one place for the final assembly. With the wings coming in from the UK, the tail and doors coming from Spain, the fuselage from Germany and the nose from France, this was no easy feat.