Creating A Passenger Monster From The Biggest Cargo Plane - Beluga XL Commercial Airliner

[@topfelya]

Please don't give Ryanair new ideas !!!

[@an_f-14_tomcat]

1,000 passengers just thrown into the cargo area, tell em to just hold on

[@adragol_cabaret]

@@an_f-14_tomcat 10,000 or 1,000? either way, no

[@adragol_cabaret]

@Zy Roc how about 400,000 in the antonov an-225

[@adragol_cabaret]

@Zy Roc more like antonov 225,000

[@christophers5510]

@@an_f-14_tomcat like those military cargo planes transporting troops

[@noyandogangun384]

Airbus Beluga XL with 1200 seats Ryanair: I'm gonna make 2000

[@richardmillhousenixon]

Are you kidding? RyanAir would make it 20,000

[@HDTomo]

Ryanair: seats?

[@elparizz1945]

nooo god

[@mwbgaming28]

Ryanair executive: seats? I never mentioned anything about paying extra for seats, just add a few overhead handrails for people to hold onto and use the weight savings to add more people

[@richardmillhousenixon]

@@mwbgaming28 As if Ryanair would bother with giving their passengers the luxury of an overhead handrail

[@yusufiftyafshanhusanjr5125]

The animations get better everyday

[@FoundAndExplained]

The one for the weekend is going to take 12 hours to render 30 seconds!

[@justsomedudecalledluqman]

Beluga XXL

[@marialeniethcayetano7484]

@@FoundAndExplained hi :3

[@frankadebuck9380]

jes

[@deforged]

i agree. i just watched this video yesterday and today the improvement is remarkable

[@riliryrimaddyvia9630]

I won't be surprised if we start seeing this plane at our international airport terminals in the emeraites livery

[@L3WIS423]

probably lol

[@Cringehandleupdate]

Lmao.

[@L3WIS423]

@maverick aviation not a spelling bee

[@letsseeif]

@maverick aviation who cares

[@hodb3906]

@@L3WIS423 dafuq does that have to do with it? Emirates is Emirates. It’s not an intelligence test either.

[@AlvaroALorite]

1:53 ah yes! The preffered unit of volume, the *"squared cubed"*

[@NicolasCageM8]

I was about to comment this! My favourite measurement

[@markusjuenemann]

you missed out another factor: The freight space is neither pressurized nor heated...

[@Venator77]

I don't see a problem

[@hjmobercgaming1209]

Who needs to breathe anyways

[@alajan02]

works for ryanair

[@sirankleknocker3122]

@@alajan02 *air koryo

[@FoundAndExplained]

Yikes

[@superskullmaster]

Fun fact: the most people ever flying on the same airplane was over 1,000 in a Boeing 747 back in 24 MAY 1991 during Operation Solomon in Ethiopia. Someone was even born mid flight.

[@sadiqahmed4143]

WTF

[@Momo_Kawashima]

Ah yes, setting the spawn point on board

[@qwertyuiopasdf160]

I think that guy was interviewed in Nas daily channel?

[@deathspirt3470]

And daily confirmed?

[@eliczyk]

So it was 1,001 people?

[@wellhellothere2291]

Man, imagine the boeing 747 dreamlifter as a passenger aircraft

[@kffarming3312]

yeah, then you get such as a 747X

[@wellhellothere2291]

@@kanepreston18 because, the dreamlifter basically have 3 floors because of the special cargo area

[@abdulrahmanalwahid9917]

The Flying Sleeper (Boeing Dreamlifter) vs. The Flying Whale (Airbus Beluga)

[@emaheiwa8174]

@@Bobspineable far better than a 747

[@vitalusiana8514]

Imagine a antonov an 225 mriya be a passenger plane

[@riliryrimaddyvia9630]

This is a great archivement,half way to 100k, it's pretty cool that this channel has grown alot since the monerail video.

[@FoundAndExplained]

Glad you enjoy it! It really has grown so much and its incredible. But I'll always be thankful for those 102 people that subscribed by the time my first plane video got big. I really respect that.

[@wings9925]

880 passengers, but little baggage capacity for them... And the fuselage is NOT pressurised, so would require enormous changes in order to accommodate passengers

[@side-fish]

You know, as much as there are drawbacks, that's actually a pretty good idea and I honestly never considered the thought of using the Beluga in this way. In fact, I think the ranges would improve if they update the engines like a NEO version of the Beluga and maybe a wing redesign as well.

[@1153mf]

I lived in Houston and saw the super guppy up close and flying on multiple occasions. It’s one of my favorites just because of how wild that thing looks. It looks like there is no way in hell it should ever get out of ground affect, yet there it is buzzing around. Such a wild looking plane!

[@justarun3467]

Bet that plane uses echolocation to navigate

[@FoundAndExplained]

Sure does!

[@Jepoy_Aquino]

😂

[@rext8949]

The reason that the 747 and 380 walked off into the sunset is that there is no demand for such huge aircrafts. Beluga XL is basically a high volume freight mover. It doesn't have either the engine power or fuselage and undercarriage strength to carry huge amounts of passengers. To carry the passenger number suggested the entire aircraft would have to be redesigned with more engines.

[@integre23]

7:50 With all the space you could just add some auxiliary tanks to the airplane to improve range as it is so big. Could also replace engines with those of a larger plane e.g. the A350 to fix the weight issue

[@jaredaviation]

This is the most underrated channel ever! Love your videos!

[@Katniss218]

Fun Fact: You also need to account for the extra structure, and cabin items' mass.

[@macieksoft]

Mass, electrical demands, bleed air demands.

[@tejmason4310]

That’s interesting, Sadly it wouldnt work in reality, I’m an aerospace engineer and to change the concept, you have to consider, an imposed load( passenger and luggage weight) a variable load ( passengers moving about) this plane was designed with a fixed dead load, meaning any extra designed weight or overweight and the plane due to its irregular shape would make the plane unflyable. Good idea tho it looks good. 🙂

[@NY-152]

SO, this plane came up today as an option for me to fly from Minneapolis to Milan. Trying to even determine if there are windows and what it looks like on the interior! Delta is offering it! Airbus A330-700 Beluga XL Freighter

[@blitsonray813]

@@NY-152 he's been reaal quiet since this dropped

[@NY-152]

@@blitsonray813 Interesting, since it legit is offered up on the Delta website!!

[@roodles1]

i love seeing this plane, i live in the flight path for hawarden airport, where the airbus factory for wings and landing gear is, and where the belugas take off to go to production site

[@erika002]

That's a quite T H I C C Airliner. And congrats on achieving 50k subs!

[@FoundAndExplained]

Yes! Thank you!

[@MDP1702]

This plane was meant for high volume 'low' mass transport, so it isn't suprising that the max load capacity would become a problem.

[@despxn]

3:56 I thought that was my ringtone for a second

[@FireeAtWill]

I remember as a kid, I also wanted to turn the beluga to either a flying aircraft carrier or a passenger plane.

[@tomasmenezes3683]

The beluga would be an awesome zero G plane! 😎

[@Unsinkable342]

I like the plane pun u added at the start when u said “let’s take off”

[@unclelep482]

Absolutely crazy idea. Great video though really enjoyed it. Looking forward to seeing what you do with Myria :)

[@SalmanMentos]

Rn beluga (correct me if im wrong) has ended production Edit: it just means theyre not making new belugas, Theyre still in service

[@jack1701e]

Basically this is the result of you filling a Beluga in Elite Dangerous with lots of passenger cabins!

[@PPlatinumgol111]

Imagine the antolov-277 becoming a passenger plane, it's already big enough with cargo

[@TenorCantusFirmus]

Well, despite being unfeasible turning the "Beluga" into a passenger airliner, you can still turn it into a sort of airship-like ultra-luxury craft, cargo upstair, passengers on the lower deck in an all-Business configuration. Just an idea, might still be unpractical...

[@simonm1447]

The upper hull is not pressurized, but as long as it don't fly above 10k ft it's not a problem

[@anonymous-rb2sr]

When watching this video, I was surprised by how well a plane with such a huge cross section could fly, and it made me think: Has any aircraft manufacturer considered a concept for a plane, based off the regular 2 engine model, that seeks to gain a significant increase in internal volume, without much of an increase in the size of the aircraft, it's weight, it's carry capacity, or it's fuel consumption? And if not, would such a concept be possible? A new type of aircraft, around or slightly above the modern double egines in weight and size, but with a much larger cabin internal volume, that could be used to finaly stop packing seats so tightly, and give the passengers some much needed leg room? *(literally)*

[@SomaDas-hh6bf]

*moar big*

[@Uryendel]

Beluga is larger not because it's optimal for cargo transportation but because it has to be that large to transport the desired cargo, you can't increase the internal volume without increasing the weight of the aircraft

[@anonymous-rb2sr]

@@Uryendel I understand that for the beluga the large frontal cross section was a necessity, as well as the fact you need more material for the structure, but here is the thing: the beluga still has remarkeable range and cross continent abilities, running on only two engines What I am proposing is not something as big as the beluga turned into a passenger aircraft, but simply something out of the same weight class as planes of similar size today, but that has a slightly increased diameter for the cylinder of the cabin, sure you would need a bit more matierial, but the fuselage is one of the lightest things on an airplane, and the volume grows at a factor of the diamater faster than the area of the enveloppe, so you could get big gains in internal volume by making the current 2 engine planes, just a tiny bit wider, and that is the point of the concept

[@Uryendel]

@@anonymous-rb2sr Belgua doesn't have a remarkable range, its range is way lower than a regular A330. You realize that the goal for aircraft manufacturer is to produce the largest cabin possible that can fly? A bigger cabin than an A330 is called an A350, and they were able to make it only by making the fuselage lighter to compensate the bigger size of the aircraft. The only way you would ever see bi-motor aircraft bigger than an A350 (with the same wing-span) is by having lighter material and better engines (or better wings)

[@anonymous-rb2sr]

@@Uryendel The cabin on the A350 is mostly longer, and it tapers less towards the back, it's straighter, and this is where the extra room comes from But the A350 has 315 seats, which is a large increase from the A330's 260 seats (again the extra space come from the plane being longer rather than wider) So the 350 isn't at all what I was proposing, and it falls into the trap which I said to avoid, which was to avoid using the extra floor space to pack more seats Of course by virtue of being bigger it would consume a bit more fuel, but this is the entire point, this is the drawback of the concept A plane, that has roughly the same weight, but more internal volume, at only a small cost in extra fuel consumption It's really straight forward but you seem having trouble understanding what I am saying, I keep repeating myself, it's getting a bit annoying And by the way, the A350 is more fuel efficient per passenger than the A330, so if you were to focus on the extra volume rather than taking in more passengers, you could run the A350 in a configuration that has the same fuel economy as the A330(lower), while having significantly more room inside, and keep in mind that this remains true despite the A30 in no way being optimized for that goal

[@digitized_fyre]

That's some tasty ice cream!

[@FoundAndExplained]

It really is! So good you came back for seconds!

[@rodrigonogueiramota4433]

can fit more than 1200 passengers Ryanair: make it 10000 passengers!

[@simonm1447]

I think Ryanair would rather take a used A 380 and press 1200 people in it

[@danielpalma1426]

This plane has a shape only a mother could love...💋

[@ArcXDZ]

Congrats on the 51K! 😁

[@malcolmmacdougall]

C of G, where is it now because that is dangerously top heavy and will roll over easily.... remember the Mary Rose ... lol

[@Sticknub]

Basically all of F&E's videos in a nutshell: This is a big plane, why don't we convert it into an airliner? Let's break it down. (10 minutes later...) This is a big plane, so why don't we convert it into an airliner? It's too expensive and too heavy

[@jaivardhandutta8152]

Finally the cat named beluga is so famous that now it has his name on planes

[@cookiemonsterdayz]

I live in northern Germany and I see this airplane quite often. It is so beautiful....

[@i.i.iiii.i.i]

Me too, I see it less than 100 meters above my head quite often :P

[@AH-64-Apache_Attack_Helicopter]

Yes! I’d fly in it, especially with the smiley face!😊

[@raramai6154]

Congrats on 300k subscribers

[@marialicepontello4280]

I love discovery and notified😂

[@inh4855]

Just stumbled upon this channel because of the YT algorithm, pretty well made video. Subbed

[@FoundAndExplained]

Hey, thanks! We are like your local friendly channel!

[@carlbrown5150]

Imagine the carnage when this misses the runway.!!

[@bakmanplays]

Beluga XL: I can fit 1200 passengers! Every budget airline: you want seats? Only standing room. Take it or leave it

[@GarrisonWallin]

This needs to be made!!

[@hinzkunzinger7891]

Greetings from Hamburg! Here you can sometime see the Beluga lift off from Finkenwerder, where Airbus has a giantic factory including an own airport. Quite an impressive sight, especially as that thing looks so slow it´s barely believable there´s enough aerodynamic going on to keep it "afloat".

[@liamcollinson5695]

I always thought that the beluga xl would make a really cool flying hotel

[@aloysiusGruen]

The cargo doors of any retrofitted freighter are extremely sensitive to wind. Even the small ones on P2F conversions like on the 757 can only be opened to a certain amount of wind speed. This is the reason why Airbus built special hangars to load/unload the Belugas independent of the weather. This works for special freight but would render passenger services uneconomical. So it would make most sense to keep the fuselage intact without cutting out the door in the first place or modify the plane in a way that it is sealed and can never be re-opened.

[@imtiaztoor4770]

Good video man

[@calix7172]

Airbus beluga XL: i have 1200 seat🙂 Ryanair:hmmm what if i do 2000😎 Antonov An-225 if he had seats:Guys chill im the king here😈 With over 500,000 seats

[@grahamturner2640]

If they can figure out weight and power issues, it might be good for commuter routes, as those are short and sometimes dense. However, it would be even less economical than a 747, as it has way more seats that are harder to fill. If this was a private jet that could actually fly far, it could work.

[@FoundAndExplained]

empty it could fly quite far I believe. The issue is boarding, but as its nose can open, whos to say that it couldn't load in a whole deck of passengers (who board at the airport and get put into the plane). that would be a fast turnaround

[@grahamturner2640]

@@FoundAndExplained yeah. The AN-225 can also fly far when not holding cargo. However, airplanes are meant to be carrying something. And I'm not sure how heavy the average private jet weighs when compared to fully loaded commercial aircraft of a similar size. 🤣

[@Onlyme.n.u]

Mate, that's very interesting. Maybe you can do a similar video base on the space shuttle if they never get retired and still in service, and someone like Richard Branson bought those shuttles from NASA and converted them into passengers space shuttles, to fly them between Sydney to London, for example. Then breakdown into the cost, practicality and feasibility. This will be a very interesting video to watch. Cheers.

[@nickvangeel]

Seems like the best plane for low cost carriers

[@pach7611]

*OH NO! ANTONOV GOTTA EVOLVE AGAIN!!! HE IS GONNA LOSE HIS THRONE 😱😱*

[@dogspacer3525]

You are getting ca. 1,5k subs in a DAY. Congratulations

[@FoundAndExplained]

Actually I only got 350 yesterday, but thanks all the same, its still incredible :)

[@dogspacer3525]

I think you will reach 100k subs at the end of March

[@wafflehorse1423]

Airbus makes passenger beluga Ryan air:I’ll take your entire stock

[@roverkootnl1854]

You can also ad a third engine like the dc10

[@skenzyme81]

Most fun idea? completely open interior volume with padded walls. Parabolic “vomit comet” microgravity adventures. Would be awesome!

[@ErnestJay88]

Beluga cargo compartment are not pressurized, when it climbed above 15000 feet (4500 meters) everyone onboard is dead, except pilots , the only part that's pressurized is the cockpit and small crew compartment behind the cockpit.

[@simonm1447]

With a little bit fitness human can still breathe normally (and walk) at 5000m+, 6k m are also possible without extra oxygen(for example at mountain climbing). I start recognizing the thin air from 4500 to 5000 m on, walking at 5500 makes a major difference to 4500 m. Overweight people may get problems earlier.

[@bruhmommento64]

A330 double deck confirmed

[@FoundAndExplained]

confirmed!

[@abdulrahmanalwahid9917]

A360

[@f87115]

These are made for our larger passengers ,, nice , now I can have my own seat Large folks will be the reason one day seats will be extra large , I can’t wait

[@L33tSkE3t]

The A380 is technically a financial failure not meeting sales targets, despite it being an incredible and iconic Engineering feat. I also think the Boeing Dreamlifter is much bigger. With the rise in point to point travel, moving away from the Hub and spoke model this wouldn't make fiscal sense as it would be a nightmare to try and fill to a capacity at which it would be profitable.

[@pbasswil]

The surface area that these tall planes present to the atmosphere is enormous. And the faster the aircraft flies, the higher the resistance. Mega-freighters may be financially viable at relatively low speeds (and for the unique shipping challenges of giant components, where the shipper must expect to pay a big premium). But once you get up to the speeds that airline passengers expect, fuel burn skyrockets.

[@sagar.a.r9575]

Great graphics bro, love it.

[@RonaldMcPaul]

Those are some good cubes.

[@GeneralSticky]

Ryanair is demanding to have the AN224 as a airliner 😂😂😂 *OH NO*

[@aniaaitchison915]

I like the safty plaine were it parashoot s to the ground Real good ideas

[@Petriefied0246]

Great video, but I think the real passenger mission for a plane like this would be as a flying yacht for a billionaire. A glass nose, a lounge, bar, bedrooms, throne room (!), sweeping stairs, a garden, skylights, toy storage, etc, etc.

[@FoundAndExplained]

Like the private air bus A380

[@Petriefied0246]

@@FoundAndExplained it would definitely be more flying yacht than airforce 1.

[@zameerosman8265]

Call it the Buluga PXLR, inprove engine efficiency and power, inprove max fuel capacity,improve wings somehow, and use materials from the a350 XLB and call it a day.

[@emericchobertpassot2552]

Your Toulouse prononciation is perfect

[@FoundAndExplained]

Thank you sir

[@Vespuchian]

I was wondering about the weight capacity of the Beluga. Nice to see someone already crunched the numbers. To make all that cargo space usable at normal passenger/cargo densities I suppose you'd need to replace the engines (and probably the wings as well) with something stronger and with more fuel capacity.

[@zugerbueb]

In the Beluga, only the cockpit is pressurized. The cargo deck is not. That is why the shape of the aircraft is possible. But the cargo area it is heated. If you were to put passengers in the Beluga, they would survive it.

[@tytoalbasoren9457]

1:51 Lmao "square cubes"

[@Lee247Jamaica]

0:00 omg the winglets i cant

[@robertorafaelvazquezvazque2376]

Great analysis however I don't think 2 engines would be enough. We can upgrade this further by attaching some A340-500/600 wings and 4 A339 engines, alongside a third main landing year leg. The new wings would help to keep the range between 2000-3000nm ;) Also I think an upper deck would be better off in a 3-3-3-3 configuration or 2-4-4-2 allowing for wider aisles so we could get rid off evacuation issues.

[@tony-cq7kd]

Beautiful.

[@philiptan2051]

As an aeronautical engineer I know this design was borne 50 years ago. If it can help solve the climate change by reducing the carbondioxide emissions per person per flight it is a great design, otherwise it is like the titanic, doomed to be forgotten after one disaster.

[@DamoclS111]

An even bigger problem with this idea, the cargo compartment on this plane is not pressurized, the structure has not been sized for it and cannot be easily redesigned for it... other option is to stay under 15000ft :/

[@colincampbell3679]

Bigger wings and hence more fuel and better bit bigger Turbo fan engines will help the distance issues, Maybe a better wing shape too?

[@angryskitboy7776]

Mind blowing!

[@BronutDonut]

Beluga: Big Brain broke ass nose and it is a monster

[@doizece6002]

the problem with this approach is that in order to create such a plane, Airbus will have to create an even bigger cargo plane :D

[@warehousetechtips]

Its my dream to see beluga xl as an comerical airliner for passengers

[@AMPProf]

We are not considering as of yet breakthroughs in Electricity Generation & Electric powered propulsion. So it could still be possible. To note when On-Aircraft Generators are developed the need for batteries becomes only part of the Safty system.

[@SMGJohn]

Do a video on Soviet super jumbo projects from the 80s like An-418 which could carry up to 800 passengers, but USSR collapsed before they could ever be realised. USSR also planned to make An-225 into a passenger variant that could theoretically transport 1000 people all-economy. Keep in mind that Soviet air traffic while largest in the entire world at the time, were mostly regional so super jumbos made almost no sense, but they had sense of competition so when they could not get 747 or rumours of large Airbus superjumbos, they wanted one too.

[@karl_fallout4523]

"I won't get into the weight of the average American passenger"🤣🤣

[@amargoun]

You have forgotten that the cargo section of the Beluga Is unptessurized. This fact by itself makes the design impossible because pressurization means a far heavier structure.

[@josemateovargasreina5541]

Ryan Air: Il tAKe yOuR EnTiRe sToCk!

[@Tintin-hh1gf]

I really like that kind of viedio maybe name it what if series

[@FoundAndExplained]

What a cool idea!

[@molfar9049]

you will never sell that many business class tickets! half of them will be empty.

[@TheCaptainSplatter]

Which is why go all economy. No first and no business class seats.

[@AngryHybridApe]

Nothing like having your cargo running around on an airline. Not too many aware of COG.

[@petrussoeganda109]

Keys of design is density: 1m2 = 100 kg ( 1 person + luggage + hand suitcase)

[@userSchlonsch]

Yeah, let’s put some Passengers in the unpressurized cargo hold of the Beluga.

[@simonm1447]

Just give them oxygen masks - what could go wrong ;-)

[@pedromalheiros1447]

can you do a SpaceX starship point to point travel video

[@MarkBarrett]

I was about to say this could actually work. Then he said the plane's performance stats...

[@zaegustfen6085]

That miniature lul... But always awesome videos like ever... Nice...

[@dangerdoberman]

This plane is so cartoonish I'm dying XD

[@johnlilienthal8474]

Who needs something like that? Especially since they already stopped building the A380. There is no demand for such huge aircrafts actually...

[@sid35gb]

Well if they can make it as quiet and comfortable as an A380 it’ll be a winner.