Exclusive AIRBUS BELUGA XL tour | You won’t believe what this plane has inside it

[@ancipital]

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!

[@digivolt]

Boeing could learn alot from Airbus

[@ancipital]

@@digivoltHow to build planes that fly reliably for a start! But I doubt that ever happen!

[@danielmantione]

@@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.

[@ancipital]

@@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!

[@nooralhuda32]

The front looks more like a dolphin than a whale and this is just me

[@k.r.99]

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

[@MrGroganmeister]

You’ve obviously never been to Thailand and see Nok planes.

[@chrisdubois3645]

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.

[@AnthonyRBlacker]

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!

[@oliverhartley760]

Or whale 😂

[@doktormerlin]

I work for the company that engineered her - She is the big proud of everyone working in the Airbus department :)

[@gherjc]

What a beautiful flying whale

[@bookslim6291]

She? There is no gender in non-living object

[@Nolan_plays]

That’s a plane

[@stevedolesch9241]

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!

[@gora2497]

That's one cute flying whale with perpetual smile!

[@tngdragon]

I had a HUGE smile on my face throughout this WHOLE video - how coooool!

[@KC-MWA]

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.

[@mike.chesworth]

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. 👍

[@paulbellingham3948]

Me too, my house is on the flight path they take to meet up with Liverpool control space, always make me 😁

[@cornovii3012]

@@paulbellingham3948 E,Port. They look like they've stopped mid air sometimes 🤣

[@Hispania-nz9xw]

I wouldn't call it luck...

[@danjames4086]

I saw one on my way to Wales. How often do they fly out from Broughton?

[@yanxiali8470]

I love live in Georgia U.S.A😢

[@selimcelik3494]

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.

[@stevenr2463]

Can see why Airbus is outperforming Boeing. By far.

[@Duckiegtg]

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.

[@georgepitfield5647]

@@Duckiegtg Take a closer look at Boeing

[@sn350channel]

@@Duckiegtg Boeing is a cheap out.

[@ik749]

@@Duckiegtg bro will not whistle blow fod boeing💀

[@TescoRoadman]

If its boeing I ain’t going 😂

[@JazzyJae88]

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. 🤗😉😊

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Nicky and his Gorgeous Safety Hat >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

[@PokhrajRoy.]

This is really an interesting aircraft shape. It’s so cool!

[@fonkamex]

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.

[@beniwal577]

oh my god i've wanted to see whats inside the beluga! incredible video!

[@AlinaKat3]

I'm from Bremen and have seen this plane fly over my little town many times. It's always been exciting to watch!

[@Dreemer94]

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.

[@loveforthegame3]

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❤

[@toasterhavingabath6980]

Airbus is europe, concorde was england and france.

[@TrappedThoughts1323]

You missed Germany and Spain

[@Jakub680]

US people don’t travel enough. Conceited group of people

[@miemietube4569]

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

[@Tobi-yi6jx]

I appreciate all the work you put in your videos and I hope you make more of these awesome mind blowing videos

[@vinyl360]

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.

[@danjames4086]

I've just spotted one of these on my way to Wales at the weekend! Huge machine.

[@retiredtom1654]

I remember the Pregnant Guppy from 60-years-ago. Then as now, these are incredible airplanes. Impressive video.

[@TheSimWolf]

It was nice of Airbus to show you around, I've never seen one of these.

[@imsbvs]

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.

[@jimhearsonwriter]

"Can I have a go?" *Beep* Genuinely thought they'd sworn at you for a moment 🤣

[@sunnydhaliwal9012]

Glad you had fun Nicky 😊

[@TheWildEscape98]

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

[@NyanyiC]

Thank you. I have always been curious about this plane. So nice to see it in action

[@sickboisadventures]

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

[@ovidijusvoronkovas1150]

So lucky to enter a cockpit. So so so jealous.... Beluga is an amazing aircraft.

[@Matobit]

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

[@ironhorsehero1988]

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.

[@matthewdavidmunson]

Thank you whoever designed the mouth.

[@anyshachoudhary6790]

I moved to Toulouse a month ago and I see these fly over my house every day! It’s a beautiful sight

[@jass1352]

Beautiful plane

[@philhowells7715]

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.

[@martingjsmith]

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.

[@80s-Retro-Alien]

My favorite plane! 💙✈️😍💜

[@barbaraspence3734]

I saw one taking off from Manchester - and couldn't quite believe what I saw.

[@dianamartin1380]

This was. Amazing!! Thanks so much. I look forward to seeing more!!

[@jameswynne7905]

I have the pleasure of seeing this everyday

[@ZahraIsMyDog]

Insane cool. How do you get type rated for this thing? And does Airbus have a sim for it?

[@TheDylanJoyce]

Airbus Beluga in the great blue sky! Fly to happy and ya fly so free!

[@BREADCRUMB]

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.’ 👀✈️

[@dharnasahu2506]

What a cutie beluga is❤❤❤

[@jaytc3218]

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.

[@drlow84]

Good work. Keep it Up!

[@theairplaneman0]

I went to the Airbus factory in August and it was amazing

[@robwillcox2307]

Never seen the Beluga do anything but buttery landings.

[@anuradhasahastrabuddhe4860]

That moment when it takes off with 1 cute eye showing❤❤❤❤❤

[@runarandersen878]

Cool video and cool building.

[@jacks20009]

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.

[@follyfour506]

I saw this whilst playing golf on Friday afternoon . Very impressive.

[@gvalley07]

Fascinating. Thanks for posting!

[@lastnamefirstname520]

This was really interesting to see! Thanks for the work dude! 10/10

[@chgames026]

You can see nicky just living his dream

[@yannickbenavides7452]

Great cinematography and editing!! kudos!!!

[@johnpollock2692]

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.

[@Stettafire]

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).

[@johnpollock2692]

Thank you.

[@benbartlett4278]

I live in Chester and broughton in right next to us. We see the Beluga fly in and she is amazing! Loving the videos!

[@ru95]

Incredible production quality on this video - good work team :)

[@anngray-trufant4362]

Absolutely fascinating!! Love this series of videos. ❤

[@aletoro58]

Thanks a lot! This is very interesting for all aviation geeks!!!!!

[@bugjuicer]

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

[@MichaelSTaylor]

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.

[@clare5805]

Amazing video. She flys over my home and my dog loves it.

[@oliphant2848]

Paul Kilmister? And in Wales? Any relation to Lemmy?

[@tjanderson5892]

The safety hat/helmets are dope.

[@OliverStapleton-f5m]

Oh wow it must of bin so majestic watching it last 😮😮

[@Mr_T990]

I could spend hours listening to Paul tell me all about this majestic beauty

[@MikeDailly]

Loved this one!! I had a huge grin on my face watching it. Amazing!

[@phalanx1337]

They do that to me when they fly over, infectious smile

[@jf5336]

That's actually a pretty cool cap. Would love to get one!

[@MH-gh]

Gr8 video & insight & you can tell (@ least to me) how much Paul loves & enthusiastic with his job

[@benjaminjoseph8487]

That was a very cool video and content Nicky. Great job as always.

[@Siouxlita]

you are the luckiest person in the world!! this is my dream!😮

[@robinjulien5163]

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.

[@monkeysausageclub]

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 🤯.

[@KoSoe-nl3hu]

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 👍👍👍

[@Tammyperry1]

OMG! that was a cool video....I loved this inside look at the loading of the Beluga

[@scopex2749]

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!

[@iamryan_inBits]

Boeing: “eh, let’s grab some bolts out of the bin to finish ‘er up.” Airbus: “ok, what now guys? Should we build a fleet of flying Beluga Whales?”

[@pascalbrode3206]

Haha, That's nice with the whale 🐳 watching in the middle of Wales. Nice word game as well.

[@nathd1748]

It absolutely NOT in the middle of Wales

[@lisalalita]

Great looking aircraft & paint job😊

[@johannawhite9703]

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?

[@LOVEEUK]

Stunning 😮

[@Y3SCYMRU]

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.

[@therealsirdj5934]

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

[@illusivec]

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.

[@bushchat28d]

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 🙂

[@nomdaploom]

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?

[@_Rafiki.]

I was in Hamburg this morning November 4th 2023 and I'm pretty sure I saw this beast flying in the distance

[@marieparrott7944]

Wow absolutely amazed Thank you ❤

[@Sudhiv_Vlogs]

Happy to witness the baluga in a daily basis in Germany..🙂

[@Sudhiv_Vlogs]

@phantagirlable Yes, I am working on the Airbus Germany FAL so we can see daily and enjoy 🙂....!!!

[@keithlopez209]

That cap... I want it, looks dope af 😅

[@hennyverheij5969]

Really amazing!

[@kdlofty]

This flies over my house quite regularly.

[@DesoloZantas]

That's a thicc aircraft! 😮

[@therealcaldini]

Yay! Broughton!

[@raymondmifsud4690]

loved this. truely impressive!!

[@themetalslayer2260]

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]

You are typing in english and not in french

[@themetalslayer2260]

@@splitsecondblackswan it's a male!

[@splitsecondblackswan]

@@themetalslayer2260 that is separate but you are typing in english and not in french.

[@themetalslayer2260]

​@@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?

[@splitsecondblackswan]

@@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.

[@petatrethewy2695]

The only plane that makes me smile,, just like the actual Beluga Whale. Other planes would be so much more interesting with similar liveries..