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Post by marlibu on Mar 21, 2019 1:48:01 GMT 1
That is the testing i am talking about. Whatever few flights it requires before it is put to work. Not another round of certification testing.
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Post by fanairbus on Mar 21, 2019 17:49:13 GMT 1
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Post by marlibu on Mar 22, 2019 15:59:43 GMT 1
what I did not understand. Is the Loadmaster stationed at each facility, or do they travel with the airplane.
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Post by nicolele on Mar 22, 2019 17:04:02 GMT 1
For me, the interest to have the loadmaster qualified to load/unload a Beluga is that he is based on each facility.
It avoids to put in each Beluga a payload engineer.
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Post by philidor on Mar 23, 2019 13:39:16 GMT 1
For me, the interest to have the loadmaster qualified to load/unload a Beluga is that he is based on each facility. It avoids to put in each Beluga a payload engineer. I agree with you, as long as the aircraft is flying to one of its usual destinations (an Airbus or main supplier's plant). |
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Post by lk2000 on Mar 26, 2019 22:34:21 GMT 1
Few informations I got from a presentation last week:
- Beluga XL #2 will first fly around mid-April.
- fuselage composed of A333 base fuselage in the rear and A332 base fuselage in the front (for equilibrium purposes)
- Certification is expected in Q3 2019
- First aircraft to be handed over to ATI is XL #2, followed by XL #3 and then XL #1 (which needs refurbishment)
- XL #1 had approx. 450 flight hours as of last week, out of a total 600 for the type
- XL #2 is the first XL frame fitted with a courrier area, designed to transport technicians, spare pilots etc. between the Airbus factories
- The courrier area offers space for 3+1 passengers. In aircraft 1, that space is used by the flight test engineers for now, will be retrofitted later.
- So far the plan is for 6 aircraft, and the objective is a full type certificate.
- The F-WBXL and F-WBXS registrations we have seen so far are only test registrations and will be replaced by different ones once delivery to ATI has happened.
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Post by Baroque on Mar 26, 2019 22:48:24 GMT 1
Full type certificate is very interesting. No restrictions on their operations I guess.
Is the regular Beluga certified by anyone else apart from the EASA? FAA? Anyone else?
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Post by mtrunz on Mar 27, 2019 2:10:40 GMT 1
Do we have any ideas how many test flights XL #2 will do?
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Post by airboche on Mar 28, 2019 17:30:21 GMT 1
Now just add two passenger decks and we have some A380 twin. What everybody wanted.
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Post by nicolele on Mar 29, 2019 9:18:10 GMT 1
What’s better than a #BelugaXL? Whale, 2 of them! |
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