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

With the departure of the Boeing 747 and Airbus A380, the Beluga XL is likely to become the largest commercial aircraft in production in the world. With its large hump and vast interior space, it is perfectly suited for carrying aircraft components, like a pair of Airbus A350 wings, across Europe. But looking at the aircraft you can’t help but wonder if Airbus ever gave any thought to converting these planes back into passenger usage. After all, wouldn’t it have all the advantages of the Airbus A380 but with twin-jet economics? The Beluga XL is 63.1 m (207 ft 0 in) long, and has a wingspan of 60.3 m (197 ft 10 in), which is around the same of an Airbus A330-200 - what the Beluga XL is based on. The real advantage is the internal space - 2209 m3 (78010 ft3) of it. The internal area of the plane is meters long, 7.7 meters wide, not including the sublevel cargo deck for freight, and 7.9 meters high. The a380 has a fuselage dimension of high, its cabin
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