{"id":332,"date":"2010-04-16T17:58:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T12:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/332\/airbus-beluga.htm"},"modified":"2020-04-04T14:20:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T08:50:45","slug":"airbus-beluga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/airbus-beluga\/","title":{"rendered":"Aerospace Design: The Beluga Airbus, a Monster Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px auto 20px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"beluga-airbus3\" border=\"0\" alt=\"beluga-airbus3\" src=\"http:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/belugaairbus3.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"330\"> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" about=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/muhectorprasetyo\/466848458\/\" xmlns:cc=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#\"><font size=\"1\">Photo credit: <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/muhectorprasetyo\/\" rel=\"cc:attributionURL\"><font size=\"1\">http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/muhectorprasetyo\/<\/font><\/a><font size=\"1\"> \/ <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" rel=\"license\"><font size=\"1\">CC BY 2.0<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\" about=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/muhectorprasetyo\/466848458\/\" xmlns:cc=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\" about=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/muhectorprasetyo\/466848458\/\" xmlns:cc=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px auto 20px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"beluga-airbus4\" border=\"0\" alt=\"beluga-airbus4\" src=\"http:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/belugaairbus4.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"329\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\" about=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/muhectorprasetyo\/466848458\/\" xmlns:cc=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#\">\n<div about=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/daspaddy\/3520865837\/\" xmlns:cc=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#\"><font size=\"1\">Photo credit: <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/daspaddy\/\" rel=\"cc:attributionURL\"><font size=\"1\">http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/daspaddy\/<\/font><\/a><font size=\"1\"> \/ <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" rel=\"license\"><font size=\"1\">CC BY 2.0<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>The Beluga Airbus<\/strong> is the world\u2019s most volumetrically cavernous aircraft and is named after the similarly shaped Beluga whale. This Airbus is almost exclusively found in the skies of Western Europe and has been well documented by scientists. Considering that only five exist, one might consider it an endangered species.<\/p>\n<p>The specifics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This monster of the skies measures a humungous 56.15 m ( 184ft ) in length and 17.24 m (56ft) in height, with a wingspan of 44.84m (147ft). It\u2019s vast insides measure 37.7m in length, 7.1m in width and 37.7m in height (which racks up to a 1,400 square meters, roughly 14,000 square feet)<\/li>\n<li>It weighs 86 tons empty and can carry a volumetric payload weight of 47 tons<\/li>\n<li>One of its main uses has been the transporting of large Airbus parts<\/li>\n<li>It can swallow helicopters and international space station modules whole.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At first we thought it was an ordinary Airbus fuselage with a gigantic box bolted on the top\u2026 but then we noticed how the front section tilts downwards. Perhaps it\u2019s bending under the weight of all that stuff on its head\u2026&nbsp; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, TMG looks forward to the day when its expertise in mechanical engineering will play an important part in the design of such landmark machines!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/lucky2.gif\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:91cd9456-c568-45f3-81eb-778728b2c5be\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/airbus\" rel=\"tag\">airbus<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/beluga\" rel=\"tag\">beluga<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/aerospace+aircraft\" rel=\"tag\">aerospace aircraft<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/aerospace+aviation\" rel=\"tag\">aerospace aviation<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/aerospace+companies\" rel=\"tag\">aerospace companies<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/aerospace+components\" rel=\"tag\">aerospace components<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/aerospace+design\" rel=\"tag\">aerospace design<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/aerospace+industry\" rel=\"tag\">aerospace industry<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/aerospace+manufacturing\" rel=\"tag\">aerospace manufacturing<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/aerospace+services\" rel=\"tag\">aerospace services<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo credit: http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/muhectorprasetyo\/ \/ CC BY 2.0 &nbsp; Photo credit: http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/daspaddy\/ \/ CC BY 2.0 The Beluga Airbus is the world\u2019s most volumetrically cavernous aircraft and is named after the similarly shaped Beluga whale. This Airbus is almost exclusively found in the skies of Western Europe and has been well documented by scientists. 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