@@ancipital Boeing is in a really poisonous situation: The 737's positioning as a low cost plane requires mass production. There was no mass production during the 737 Max grounding, therefore it has to speed up 737 production in order to solve the financial fiasco of the 737 Max troubles and maintain good relations with airlines who are waiting for their delayed planes. Speeding up production without compromising quality is always a challenge and Boeing has failed here. Airbus is in a comfortable position, they can just execute plans they made a decade ago. They had no big unplanned costs due to groundings with the A321Neo, so no urgent need to speed up production. They might even be able to raise their prices due to Boeing their reputation taking a hit.
@@danielmantione Yes, Boeing are in a really poisonous situation caused by management, shortcuts and getting rid of any engineers and designers that raise concerns. They push through changes to aircraft that are essentially totally different airplanes and with colusion with the FCC get to push them through with self certification rather than the full re-certification they should have had. They hide major changes from the purchasers of the aircrafts with "nah, it's all OK, trust us" whereas as we've all discovered, they've lied and manipulated results. Unfortunately, without a top down radical change to the structure of Boeing, it will not get any better, the management that caused the issues are still there and they are not going to change. Still, I bet if you say upper management have to fly on the planes such that there's always one of them on any aircraft at a time they will be sure to change their tune when their own lives are at risk!
First, i thought the black mask around the cockpit was supposed to look like sunglasses, until i realised the eyes and it struck me: this is the cutest and funniest plane livery I've ever seen
What a graceful bird she is! Watching her land so daintily, just gorgeous. It's pretty amazing a plane shaped like that has no issues at all flying massive cargo. Stunning!
Working in large scale manufacturing, what amazed me is the effectiveness of their processes. When you have all the right tools, the right parts, and a clean process it just looks meticulous.
When I was truck driving I had a customer who I used to deliver too right by the runway and if I was lucky I’d get to see this beautiful plane land or take off, a magnificent sight. A great video to watch thank you for making it guys.
I'm lucky to live close to Broughton and see these going over my house on a regular basis, but this was great to see inside, and how they work. Great Video. 👍
This and the A380s always shocked me with they are able to get off the ground. Side note, those helmets remind me of professional horseback riding helmets. When fashion meets safety. 🤗😉😊
Good for france and the UK!. These guys obviously have serious pride about there job. Seeing such an amazing piece of equipment being utilized efficiently across the pond is awesome! i forget the world is bigger than the US sometimes! Biggest cargo carrier in the world! Being used to build the best planes in the world! You guys are great. Love flying airbus❤
I always wondered how it made sense financially to fully develop a new aircraft for transporting parts across Europe. Wouldn't it just be cheaper and simpler to put them on trucks? I'm glad this thing exists regardless.
I am in total awe by how amazing this plane is. Wow and the name so appropriate!!❤ If we can build amazing things like planes and rockets taking satelites into space why cant we stop the wars?b
Great to see, I used to watch A380's doing pilot training, but this is somethign special. I guess the aerodynamics have a greater influence than the payload weight which would be why flying empty or with cargo is not much different.
Nicky, that was so different from the previous video, of First-class with Singapore Airlines, but so good. Where I live I'm so lucky to be in the flight path of a few northern UK airports, but seeing Billy the Beluga fly over occasionally is so special. It's even better than seeing the A380s. I wonder, does Billy the Beluga have any pluffy pillows, that's the big question, for an even bigger plane? Looking forward to your next video now, thanks.
Well done you for Broughton in Wales, all too often claimed as Chester (England). We live a short distance from Broughton and are privileged to see the various Balugas flying close by either circling to land or having just taken off destined for Germany, France or Spain.
Several years ago was parked overnight in my truck outside Chester. It was getting dark when this craft appeared overhead flying low. Hadn't seen it before and thought it was a space craft. AMAZING sight.
If you ever want to repeat the experience I recommend parking up at around 7am, there is usually one or two near the start of the work day arriving at Chester airport (often called Chester airport even though it's in Broughton).
Always admired the Beluga's fashion sense-painting eyes on a plane? That's next-level accessorizing. It's like the plane's saying, ‘I see you, too.’ 👀✈️
I’m from Manchester and on a clear day, I often see this flying over. Always amuses me how something so funny shaped can actually take off😂beautiful though.
I was in Chester this week and saw a Beluga in the distance. The following day I decided to make a detour to Broughton on my way home to South Wales, but sadly missed a takeoff by an hour. I need to get back there to see this awesome aircraft.
I live nearby in wrexham, quite often see these flying past. Awesome aircraft and look so majestic in person. Edit: theres also a diner called chocks away which is on the airfield, you get amazing views there of the Belugas and all the GA that fly out of broughton
Boeing is a good company it’s just that people say it’s Boeings fault for most of its crashes but it’s mostly mantainens issues or pilot errors but both are really good company’s.
Wow that was fantastic footage you now have a new subscriber 😁 only just come across your channel and loved every minute of it you are so lucky to have had the chance to do all this ! I’m so jealous 👍🏻
I’m curious to know how the Beluga handles in a crosswind during takeoff and landing. As the captain said, there’s not much difference in handling with a weight change but the large side profile must act like a giant sail in crosswind. Fascinating and beautiful aircraft.
6:55 - awwww they missed a trick; I love the eyes on the 'whale' they're cute, but they could have put it a tad higher so the landing assist lights, would make the eyes 'twinkle' when they're on
I’m glad you said Broughton North Wales, of course it is located very close to Chester which is in England but you did say Broughton Wales. Well done you the most important employment base in north-east Wales and Cheshire and we are proud of it too.🏴🇬🇧🏴
This and all the other variants fly over my house almost daily. The XL that's been painted up to look like a dolphin is just superb as it goes over... really slowly 🙂
It makes you wonder why they didn't call it the Airbus Dolphin XL. Perhaps the fact that it more closely resembles a Beluga whale than a dolphin has something to do with it?
don't get me wrong, the Beluga XL is great (love the little smiley face on it). I personally love to see them added to the MSFS 2024... but then again: my dad works at Airbus Finkenwerder (the one in Hamburg), so I might be a little bit biast. Also: We live close by to hamburg, so you sometimes can just look up in the sky and watch a Beluga fly over on their approach to Finkenwerder, which is great
Well done, mate with the capturing of the moving pictures of this whale, i hope you had a whale of a time. I wonder other then plane parts and possibly eating up a fuselage of a smaller air bus plane like A320 i wonder if these planes can stack up cars, train carriages, defence equipment and motor yachts that don’t want to get wet. Thx for the tour
sure they can but the normal A330-200F Cargo is much cheaper, faster, can load more tons and can fly a longer distance. The Beluga is just good to transport big and light parts for a maximum of 4.000km. There is no big market for big and light parts to transport and Airbus needs all of there Belugas for them self. But Airbus offers now the old A300 Beluga for private charters sometimes when the old ones are free.
I was an aircraft engineer in the RAF and I remember the old Super Guppy. We would handle it and refuel it then off it went again. Great old aicraft the new Beluga is much bigger and VERY posh - a FLYING WHALE!
I was at the airbus tour just ABT a year ago flew from Singapore to Paris then onto Toulouse and it was awesome and I heard there's a beluga tour too so I am making plans for this tour next year for sure...cheers to you and I will subscribe to your channel...well done and stay safe...
Now imagine a pod of real belugas playfully chilling in some Arctic cove, and this beast flies out of nowhere and virtually skims the surface of the water, buzzing the pod, tilting its wings back and forth to wave hello. It was within this pod on that day that worship of the flying whale goddess was born, and the belugas still communicate amongst themselves how lucky they were to have witnessed such a miracle.
For me it's very difficult to get my head around just how big these aeroplanes are until you see the windows of the cockpit! Do they ever name these planes like they do the steam trains?
I live next to there. First time I heard the noise of that beast and looked up, I thought I was halucinating. Beluga looks even wilder when it's flying 400m above your house.
i saw this big boy landing at Toulouse many times and i love the way he looks (yes plane is a masculine word in french so that's why i call it like that) i'd like to pet this cute flying marine mammal
@@splitsecondblackswan why do you say it's a female? what is the reason why in english this is a female thing (there's no genre in english while in french we can't say that's a female...that's impossible). Why do you say that a plane is a female?
@@themetalslayer2260 only a female carries the burden of the entire world. Without female side there was nothing. So anything that carries us is a female.
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I love that the attention to detail for the Beluga XL is that they have a whale face paint job on the front - that's brilliant!
Boeing could learn alot from Airbus
@@digivoltHow to build planes that fly reliably for a start! But I doubt that ever happen!
@@ancipital Boeing is in a really poisonous situation: The 737's positioning as a low cost plane requires mass production. There was no mass production during the 737 Max grounding, therefore it has to speed up 737 production in order to solve the financial fiasco of the 737 Max troubles and maintain good relations with airlines who are waiting for their delayed planes. Speeding up production without compromising quality is always a challenge and Boeing has failed here.
Airbus is in a comfortable position, they can just execute plans they made a decade ago. They had no big unplanned costs due to groundings with the A321Neo, so no urgent need to speed up production. They might even be able to raise their prices due to Boeing their reputation taking a hit.
@@danielmantione Yes, Boeing are in a really poisonous situation caused by management, shortcuts and getting rid of any engineers and designers that raise concerns. They push through changes to aircraft that are essentially totally different airplanes and with colusion with the FCC get to push them through with self certification rather than the full re-certification they should have had. They hide major changes from the purchasers of the aircrafts with "nah, it's all OK, trust us" whereas as we've all discovered, they've lied and manipulated results.
Unfortunately, without a top down radical change to the structure of Boeing, it will not get any better, the management that caused the issues are still there and they are not going to change.
Still, I bet if you say upper management have to fly on the planes such that there's always one of them on any aircraft at a time they will be sure to change their tune when their own lives are at risk!
The front looks more like a dolphin than a whale and this is just me
First, i thought the black mask around the cockpit was supposed to look like sunglasses, until i realised the eyes and it struck me: this is the cutest and funniest plane livery I've ever seen
You’ve obviously never been to Thailand and see Nok planes.
What a graceful bird she is! Watching her land so daintily, just gorgeous. It's pretty amazing a plane shaped like that has no issues at all flying massive cargo. Stunning!
Or whale 😂
I work for the company that engineered her - She is the big proud of everyone working in the Airbus department :)
What a beautiful flying whale
She? There is no gender in non-living object
That’s a plane
Working in large scale manufacturing, what amazed me is the effectiveness of their processes. When you have all the right tools, the right parts, and a clean process it just looks meticulous.
I had a HUGE smile on my face throughout this WHOLE video - how coooool!
I need to say this: this is the happiest flying beluga in this world! I really enjoy seeing the smile and the eyes. Bravo Airbus!
When I was truck driving I had a customer who I used to deliver too right by the runway and if I was lucky I’d get to see this beautiful plane land or take off, a magnificent sight. A great video to watch thank you for making it guys.
That's one cute flying whale with perpetual smile!
I'm lucky to live close to Broughton and see these going over my house on a regular basis, but this was great to see inside, and how they work. Great Video. 👍
Me too, my house is on the flight path they take to meet up with Liverpool control space, always make me 😁
@@paulbellingham3948 E,Port. They look like they've stopped mid air sometimes 🤣
I wouldn't call it luck...
I saw one on my way to Wales.
How often do they fly out from Broughton?
I love live in Georgia U.S.A😢
This and the A380s always shocked me with they are able to get off the ground.
Side note, those helmets remind me of professional horseback riding helmets. When fashion meets safety. 🤗😉😊
This is really an interesting aircraft shape. It’s so cool!
Good for france and the UK!. These guys obviously have serious pride about there job. Seeing such an amazing piece of equipment being utilized efficiently across the pond is awesome! i forget the world is bigger than the US sometimes! Biggest cargo carrier in the world! Being used to build the best planes in the world! You guys are great. Love flying airbus❤
Airbus is europe, concorde was england and france.
You missed Germany and Spain
US people don’t travel enough. Conceited group of people
I always wondered how it made sense financially to fully develop a new aircraft for transporting parts across Europe. Wouldn't it just be cheaper and simpler to put them on trucks? I'm glad this thing exists regardless.
I appreciate all the work you put in your videos and I hope you make more of these awesome mind blowing videos
oh my god i've wanted to see whats inside the beluga! incredible video!
I'm from Bremen and have seen this plane fly over my little town many times. It's always been exciting to watch!
I used to see these daily growing up. I lived less than 10 miles from Broughton. I still see them when I visit my Mum.
I am in total awe by how amazing this plane is. Wow and the name so appropriate!!❤ If we can build amazing things like planes and rockets taking satelites into space why cant we stop the wars?b
This is a beautiful and very special aircraft. What impress me the most about this design is it doesn’t seem really aerodynamic but it is.
Great to see, I used to watch A380's doing pilot training, but this is somethign special. I guess the aerodynamics have a greater influence than the payload weight which would be why flying empty or with cargo is not much different.
I'm lucky to see the Beluga fleet coming over regularly. Went to see The Story Of Beluga in StoryHouse, Chester. Very insightful. Obsessed with them
These fly over my house about twice a week, usually Tuesday and Thursdays I think. They are so impressive to see flying over when the skies are clear.
Nicky, that was so different from the previous video, of First-class with Singapore Airlines, but so good.
Where I live I'm so lucky to be in the flight path of a few northern UK airports, but seeing Billy the Beluga fly over occasionally is so special. It's even better than seeing the A380s.
I wonder, does Billy the Beluga have any pluffy pillows, that's the big question, for an even bigger plane?
Looking forward to your next video now, thanks.
I remember the Pregnant Guppy from 60-years-ago. Then as now, these are incredible airplanes. Impressive video.
This was. Amazing!! Thanks so much. I look forward to seeing more!!
Thank you. I have always been curious about this plane. So nice to see it in action
Absolutely fascinating!! Love this series of videos. ❤
Thank you whoever designed the mouth.
So lucky to enter a cockpit. So so so jealous.... Beluga is an amazing aircraft.
I moved to Toulouse a month ago and I see these fly over my house every day! It’s a beautiful sight
I've just spotted one of these on my way to Wales at the weekend! Huge machine.
Nicky and his Gorgeous Safety Hat >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Well done you for Broughton in Wales, all too often claimed as Chester (England). We live a short distance from Broughton and are privileged to see the various Balugas flying close by either circling to land or having just taken off destined for Germany, France or Spain.
It blows me away how this huge plane can take off with just 2 relatively small engines. Airbus excel at designing economic and fuel efficient planes
I went to the Airbus factory in August and it was amazing
This was really interesting to see! Thanks for the work dude! 10/10
I saw one taking off from Manchester - and couldn't quite believe what I saw.
I live in Chester and broughton in right next to us. We see the Beluga fly in and she is amazing! Loving the videos!
Gr8 video & insight & you can tell (@ least to me) how much Paul loves & enthusiastic with his job
My favorite plane! 💙✈️😍💜
Several years ago was parked overnight in my truck outside Chester. It was getting dark when this craft appeared overhead flying low. Hadn't seen it before and thought it was a space craft. AMAZING sight.
If you ever want to repeat the experience I recommend parking up at around 7am, there is usually one or two near the start of the work day arriving at Chester airport (often called Chester airport even though it's in Broughton).
Thank you.
Always admired the Beluga's fashion sense-painting eyes on a plane? That's next-level accessorizing. It's like the plane's saying, ‘I see you, too.’ 👀✈️
That was a very cool video and content Nicky. Great job as always.
Incredible production quality on this video - good work team :)
It was nice of Airbus to show you around, I've never seen one of these.
I’m from Manchester and on a clear day, I often see this flying over. Always amuses me how something so funny shaped can actually take off😂beautiful though.
I saw this whilst playing golf on Friday afternoon . Very impressive.
I was in Chester this week and saw a Beluga in the distance. The following day I decided to make a detour to Broughton on my way home to South Wales, but sadly missed a takeoff by an hour. I need to get back there to see this awesome aircraft.
Airbus Beluga in the great blue sky! Fly to happy and ya fly so free!
I live nearby in wrexham, quite often see these flying past. Awesome aircraft and look so majestic in person.
Edit: theres also a diner called chocks away which is on the airfield, you get amazing views there of the Belugas and all the GA that fly out of broughton
Can see why Airbus is outperforming Boeing. By far.
Boeing is a good company it’s just that people say it’s Boeings fault for most of its crashes but it’s mostly mantainens issues or pilot errors but both are really good company’s.
@@Duckiegtg Take a closer look at Boeing
@@Duckiegtg Boeing is a cheap out.
@@Duckiegtg bro will not whistle blow fod boeing💀
If its boeing I ain’t going 😂
Wow that was fantastic footage you now have a new subscriber 😁 only just come across your channel and loved every minute of it you are so lucky to have had the chance to do all this ! I’m so jealous 👍🏻
That moment when it takes off with 1 cute eye showing❤❤❤❤❤
I’m curious to know how the Beluga handles in a crosswind during takeoff and landing. As the captain said, there’s not much difference in handling with a weight change but the large side profile must act like a giant sail in crosswind. Fascinating and beautiful aircraft.
I have the pleasure of seeing this everyday
I love beluga ❤❤❤
I think beluga is more than a good transporter .I want to see beluga as a luxury plane it's very so good 👍👍👍
Great cinematography and editing!! kudos!!!
Beautiful plane
Loved this one!! I had a huge grin on my face watching it. Amazing!
They do that to me when they fly over, infectious smile
Insane cool. How do you get type rated for this thing? And does Airbus have a sim for it?
Glad you had fun Nicky 😊
Fascinating. Thanks for posting!
Never seen the Beluga do anything but buttery landings.
Good work. Keep it Up!
6:55 - awwww they missed a trick; I love the eyes on the 'whale' they're cute, but they could have put it a tad higher so the landing assist lights, would make the eyes 'twinkle' when they're on
What a cutie beluga is❤❤❤
I’m glad you said Broughton North Wales, of course it is located very close to Chester which is in England but you did say Broughton Wales. Well done you the most important employment base in north-east Wales and Cheshire and we are proud of it too.🏴🇬🇧🏴
you are the luckiest person in the world!! this is my dream!😮
OMG! that was a cool video....I loved this inside look at the loading of the Beluga
That's actually a pretty cool cap. Would love to get one!
Cool video and cool building.
I could spend hours listening to Paul tell me all about this majestic beauty
Oh wow it must of bin so majestic watching it last 😮😮
Amazing video. She flys over my home and my dog loves it.
I had the opportunity to visit the site in Toulouse and seeing 5 beluga's land to deliver parts for final assembly. It was crazy.
You can see nicky just living his dream
This and all the other variants fly over my house almost daily. The XL that's been painted up to look like a dolphin is just superb as it goes over... really slowly 🙂
It makes you wonder why they didn't call it the Airbus Dolphin XL. Perhaps the fact that it more closely resembles a Beluga whale than a dolphin has something to do with it?
Thanks a lot! This is very interesting for all aviation geeks!!!!!
The safety hat/helmets are dope.
Love seeing the Beluga fly north from Toulouse in France, I track it on Flight24 radar and get some decent shots as it flies up.
don't get me wrong, the Beluga XL is great (love the little smiley face on it). I personally love to see them added to the MSFS 2024... but then again: my dad works at Airbus Finkenwerder (the one in Hamburg), so I might be a little bit biast. Also: We live close by to hamburg, so you sometimes can just look up in the sky and watch a Beluga fly over on their approach to Finkenwerder, which is great
Well done, mate with the capturing of the moving pictures of this whale, i hope you had a whale of a time. I wonder other then plane parts and possibly eating up a fuselage of a smaller air bus plane like A320 i wonder if these planes can stack up cars, train carriages, defence equipment and motor yachts that don’t want to get wet. Thx for the tour
sure they can but the normal A330-200F Cargo is much cheaper, faster, can load more tons and can fly a longer distance. The Beluga is just good to transport big and light parts for a maximum of 4.000km. There is no big market for big and light parts to transport and Airbus needs all of there Belugas for them self. But Airbus offers now the old A300 Beluga for private charters sometimes when the old ones are free.
"Can I have a go?"
*Beep*
Genuinely thought they'd sworn at you for a moment 🤣
I was an aircraft engineer in the RAF and I remember the old Super Guppy. We would handle it and refuel it then off it went again. Great old aicraft the new Beluga is much bigger and VERY posh - a FLYING WHALE!
That cap... I want it, looks dope af 😅
Broughton is in Chester isn't it not Wales.
Still a very cool video, I have never seen inside the Beluga and like I knew it was big but man 🤯.
This flies over my house quite regularly.
I was in Hamburg this morning November 4th 2023 and I'm pretty sure I saw this beast flying in the distance
Happy to witness the baluga in a daily basis in Germany..🙂
@phantagirlable
Yes,
I am working on the Airbus Germany FAL so we can see daily and enjoy 🙂....!!!
Great looking aircraft & paint job😊
I was at the airbus tour just ABT a year ago flew from Singapore to Paris then onto Toulouse and it was awesome and I heard there's a beluga tour too so I am making plans for this tour next year for sure...cheers to you and I will subscribe to your channel...well done and stay safe...
I love the Beluga, she flys over my home sometimes and I rush out to look at her if I catch her on Flightradar 24.
Now imagine a pod of real belugas playfully chilling in some Arctic cove, and this beast flies out of nowhere and virtually skims the surface of the water, buzzing the pod, tilting its wings back and forth to wave hello.
It was within this pod on that day that worship of the flying whale goddess was born, and the belugas still communicate amongst themselves how lucky they were to have witnessed such a miracle.
The only plane that makes me smile,, just like the actual Beluga Whale. Other planes would be so much more interesting with similar liveries..
Wow absolutely amazed Thank you ❤
For me it's very difficult to get my head around just how big these aeroplanes are until you see the windows of the cockpit! Do they ever name these planes like they do the steam trains?
Haha, That's nice with the whale 🐳 watching in the middle of Wales.
Nice word game as well.
It absolutely NOT in the middle of Wales
I live next to there. First time I heard the noise of that beast and looked up, I thought I was halucinating. Beluga looks even wilder when it's flying 400m above your house.
i saw this big boy landing at Toulouse many times and i love the way he looks (yes plane is a masculine word in french so that's why i call it like that)
i'd like to pet this cute flying marine mammal
You are typing in english and not in french
@@splitsecondblackswan it's a male!
@@themetalslayer2260 that is separate but you are typing in english and not in french.
@@splitsecondblackswan why do you say it's a female? what is the reason why in english this is a female thing (there's no genre in english while in french we can't say that's a female...that's impossible). Why do you say that a plane is a female?
@@themetalslayer2260 only a female carries the burden of the entire world. Without female side there was nothing. So anything that carries us is a female.
Yay! Broughton!
Stunning 😮