An Airbus Beluga transporter aircraft flew a formation flight with the French Air Force’s famed “Patrouille de France” aerobatic demons...
An Airbus Beluga transporter aircraft flew a formation flight with the French Air Force’s famed “Patrouille de France” aerobatic demonstration team above Toulouse, France on 30 May.
The flight was filmed for Beluga’s upcoming 20th anniversary in September.
The Beluga, also known as the A300-600ST Super Transporter was developed to transport complete sections of Airbus aircraft produced at different sites across Europe to the final assembly lines in Toulouse or Hamburg, Germany.
Beluga is based on a highly modified version of the Airbus A300-600 airliner and can transport oversized cargos. Its main deck cargo volume is greater than the Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, Antonov AN-124 and Boeing C-17 strategic military airlifters.
The five Beluga fleet is operated by Airbus Transport International (ATI) and also offers Belugas on chartered commercial flights.
The Super Transporter is able to carry a payload of 47 metric tonnes (103,616 lb.) over a range of 900 nautical miles (1,667 km).
Patrouille de France formed in 1931, is the French Air Force’s precision aerobatic demonstration team, flying Dassault-Breguet/Dornier Alpha Jets.
