Building Giants: The BelugaXL Tour Leg 9

Leg 9 — LEGT → LFBO Getafe → Toulouse Mission: Transport Spanish-manufactured Airbus structures to Toulouse for integration into aircraft undergoing final assembly.

📖 The Airplane Inside the Airplane Loading a BelugaXL can create one of aviation's strangest sights.

An aircraft component disappears inside another aircraft.

Sometimes that component is so enormous that seeing it on the ground makes you wonder how anything could possibly transport it by air.

That was exactly the challenge Airbus engineers faced.

The BelugaXL provides a maximum payload of approximately 51 tonnes and about 2,200 nautical miles of range. More importantly, its enlarged hold provides around 30% greater transport capacity than the BelugaST.

That additional volume matters enormously as Airbus increases production.

You turn toward Toulouse.

Behind you is another piece of the production puzzle.

Ahead waits the assembly line.