XWB
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Post by XWB on Sept 16, 2015 14:37:22 GMT 1
The aircraft will be modified somewhere else. Just like the A330 tankers are completed in Spain.
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Post by stealthmanbob on Sept 16, 2015 14:38:53 GMT 1
No, the aircraft will be modified somewhere else. Just like the A330 tankers are completed in Spain. That's what I just said
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mjoelnir
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Post by mjoelnir on Sept 16, 2015 15:40:47 GMT 1
The aircraft will be modified somewhere else. Just like the A330 tankers are completed in Spain. Modified or build? The tanker is a bad comparison.
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Post by stealthmanbob on Sept 16, 2015 15:46:19 GMT 1
The aircraft will be modified somewhere else. Just like the A330 tankers are completed in Spain. Modified or build? The tanker is a bad comparison. I think it means build on the A330 FAL at Tolouse and then fly away to be modified ?
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Post by a380admirer on Sept 16, 2015 19:00:31 GMT 1
A special "FAL-Dock" will build in Toulouse for the XL Beluga! The "Montagedock" (FAL-Dock) will build from Ascent Aerospace! The parts are comming on the normal way (Beluga) and some parts are comming on a ship and some on the Road! Surch in Google for Beluga XL,,, there are many Information available!
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Baroque
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Post by Baroque on Sept 16, 2015 23:03:58 GMT 1
I think this will be new frames build as Beluga straight away. Not frames build first and than cut off to make space for the new pieces. The old Beluga were used frames. From what I understand, the current belugas are new build and not used frames (planespotters.net gives late construction numbers 655, 7xx). The parts were prefabricated and brought together to assembly at Toulouse in a special station. A useful resource. Here's a video with snippets of a beluga under construction. You can see the cockpit and everything is completely empty. I would find it extremely difficult to believe that a cut and paste job can be done for a fuselage that is more than 50% structurally different. It would be much cheaper to build it ground up from prefabricated parts. Likewise, I think the new Beluga XL will be assembled at Toulouse using prefabbed parts.
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Post by peter on Sept 17, 2015 0:36:31 GMT 1
The old Beluga were used frames. Really? What old frames?
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mjoelnir
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Post by mjoelnir on Sept 17, 2015 11:51:24 GMT 1
The old Beluga were used frames. Really? What old frames? I seem to be wrong with that the old Beluga were build from used frames. They were definitely newly build straight away as the Beluga. I think I read long time ago a piece about converting the A300-600 to the Beluga. Perhaps that is the first frame that is different from the 4 later ones.
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s543
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Post by s543 on Sept 17, 2015 18:07:56 GMT 1
They will definitively not use anything used - they do want to last those frames as long as possible.
They have the nonsense legislative limit to be able to build only 5 pcs so !!!
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Baroque
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Post by Baroque on Sept 18, 2015 3:58:04 GMT 1
Perhaps that is the first frame that is different from the 4 later ones. I don't believe that this is the case. The video I linked above shows Beluga no. 1 under construction. This frame is the first delivered and lists as c/n 655 which is within range of the other Beluga c/ns 7XX. It had its first flight in Sept 1994 according to planespotter's history, the same date given by other sources as being the for first beluga flight too and had only one delivery date. In the case of conversions, planespotters.net usually gives the date it was delivered as-is and then the date it was delivered after conversion like this MRTT example.
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