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Archive => Other Topics => Old Forum => Real-world aviation => Topic started by: EHM-1358 Tim on May 11, 2004, 09:26:06 pm

Title: This will make you luagh!
Post by: EHM-1358 Tim on May 11, 2004, 09:26:06 pm

Hehe...Look at this plane.
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/575890/M/
And this one aint funny but I think they wanted it to (if you know what I mean)

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/576042/M/

Title: This will make you luagh!
Post by: EHM-1388 Tiberiu on May 11, 2004, 10:04:25 pm

Do you know what's even funnier?
That is a modified Boeing 377 used by Airbus to transport fuselage and wing parts between different assembly sites... It was replaced by the Airbus 300-600ST Beluga...
So, bottom line, Airbus Industries used Boeing aircraft in their aircraft manufacturing process...
;D;D;D

Title: This will make you luagh!
Post by: EHM-0933 Richard on May 11, 2004, 10:54:23 pm

Good point, very ironic! P.S. The first aircraft looks very fat like a whale!

Cheers
Rich
;D

Title: This will make you luagh!
Post by: EHM-0962 Zhen Yi on May 12, 2004, 12:42:57 pm

lol at the lol ;D

Title: This will make you luagh!
Post by: EHM-1343 Jonathan on May 12, 2004, 07:00:44 pm

I love it.










Not:8

Title: This will make you luagh!
Post by: EHM-1343 Jonathan on May 12, 2004, 07:03:25 pm

Just an adittion to my last post. Wasn't that the plane that used to transport parts of the concorde. Someone correct me if I am wrong. that is the ancestor of the Beluga. The whale of whales LOLOLOL;D

Title: This will make you luagh!
Post by: EHM-1388 Tiberiu on May 12, 2004, 07:20:44 pm

Yes, as I posted before, this is the ancestor of the Beluga, wich was built from the A300-600...
Now Airbus plans to modify the A340 in a Beluga sort-of-way to carry parts for the A380... Now that should be huge too ;D

Title: This will make you luagh!
Post by: EHM-1343 Jonathan on May 12, 2004, 07:44:14 pm

Personally, i think that the A380 will be big enough but I reckon a a340-600ST(thats my new name for it) will be the largest in the wrld. probably larger than an Antonov

Title: This will make you luagh!
Post by: EHM-0962 Zhen Yi on May 13, 2004, 07:29:31 am

And i thought their other transport planes were large enough already........ :o guess you need a special plane to transport parts for a special plane! :P

Title: This will make you luagh!
Post by: EHM-1821 Javier on February 27, 2006, 01:58:36 pm

actually,that plane was also used by NASA to fly in rocket parts for the Saturn5 Rocket(the one that went to the moon).Its nose actually opens up sideways!

Title: This will make you luagh!
Post by: EHM-1703 Philip on February 27, 2006, 06:49:00 pm

Hey Tim, here's an even funnier story. I actually saw one of the Airbus modified Boeing 377's up close and personal at Manchester (Ringway as it was then) about 28 years ago (1978) when I was a little boy. My Dad was subcontracted to Marconi at the time and had to do some work on it's Radar as it was picking up parts for Airbus A300's from British Aerospace in Broughton, North Wales! I have some pictures of it somewhere but I think they are slides and I have no way of getting them on to my PC atm. (I will try and dig them out!!!!) Of course that was in the good old days when he could take me airside, I don't suppose he would be able to do that these days! (Although he retired many years ago!)

In a sort of related story, have you heard that BAE Systems is likely to sell Airbus UK this year???? (which forms 20% of Airbus S.A.S.) Apparently they want to concentrate on the Defense market, in particular in the USA.

Title: This will make you luagh!
Post by: EHM-1358 Tim on February 27, 2006, 08:03:24 pm

So no Beluga's at Broughton? :(

They fly over my house every so often.