The Airbus Beluga is one of the strangest and most striking aircraft ever built.
It looks fascinating and massive in the pictures, and even more so from the ground.
In a new clip of the aircraft taking off from London Heathrow Airport, the plane looks unbelievable.
Also, it kind of looks like it’s smiling.
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One of the strangest-looking planes in the world
The Airbus Beluga is a strange plane, with an even stranger interior.
The inspiration from the plane comes from the Beluga whale which, ironically, happens to be one of the smallest whales to have ever existed, whereas the Beluga airplane is one of the largest aircraft in the world.
Levity aside, the Beluga looks amusing, in part, because it looks like it has a face that’s smiling all the time.
You can clearly see that in the clip shared to Instagram by Kleeven and reposted by u1ub2.
Airbus built the Beluga to transport large aircraft parts to and from several huge factories.
It’s not an airplane you see every day, and it even has its own airline.
Airbus Beluga size and capacity
Beluga is a massive plane with a gigantic engine.
It’s powered by Rolls-Royce Trent 700 turbofan engines rated at 71,000lbs of thrust each.
The doors are massive, too.
They are 7.5 meters high at the opening and 8.1 meters wide, they’re wider than some aircraft.
It has a cargo capacity of 78,000 cubic feet – or 2,209 cubic meters – equivalent to around 40-50 metric tons.
The future of this plane is uncertain.
Last year, Airbus produced what was supposed to be the last Beluga aircraft.
But all Belugas are still operational and, with a bit of luck, we’ll be able to admire it for decades to come.
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