By: Amiga500 - 28th November 2014 at 12:26
In addition the A.380 just would be as big as the Beluga.
You’d store the cargo vertically.
The floor to ceiling potential in an A380 is ~7.5-8m (after removing floor beams of top and mid pax cabins.
By: garryrussell - 27th November 2014 at 17:04
In addition the A.380 just would be as big as the Beluga.
By: Amiga500 - 27th November 2014 at 16:33
An A.380F would not be able to carry a Beluga load.
The Beluga is a large capacity freighter…the A.380F would be normal wide bodied freighter size on two floors, not one big space.
Yes… because it would have been impossible to design the thing to remove the floor beams and have reinforced frames instead.
By: garryrussell - 27th November 2014 at 13:42
I got confused driving around East Midlands…seemed I was going in out of counties at a higher rate than airport movements
By: silver fox - 21st November 2014 at 20:06
Broughton is in Flintshire not Cheshire, so it’s in Wales, albeit just. 😉
No wonder it gets confusing,
BAE Systems PLC
Chester Rd
Broughton
Chester
Cheshire CH4 0DR
But the airfield is classed as Hawarden, Flintshire, must be great being able to work in two countries on the same day.
I have been into the factory many moons ago and was not aware that I was so close to the Welsh border.
By: Mr Merry - 21st November 2014 at 17:34
Sorry if this sounds pedantic, but reading the press release, when did Broughton migrate to Wales?
Last time I was out there, the factory entrance was on the Chester Rd and firmly in Cheshire.
Broughton is in Flintshire not Cheshire, so it’s in Wales, albeit just. 😉
By: garryrussell - 21st November 2014 at 14:19
An A.380F would not be able to carry a Beluga load.
The Beluga is a large capacity freighter…the A.380F would be normal wide bodied freighter size on two floors, not one big space.
By: Amiga500 - 21st November 2014 at 14:13
Yet another instance of Airbus strategic planning f**king it up.
If they’d planned ahead; the A380F would have had a hinged nose and the cargo bay would have been capable of taking such sized items.
Two birds, one stone – and the A380F might just have sold in numbers.
By: silver fox - 19th November 2014 at 19:40
Sorry if this sounds pedantic, but reading the press release, when did Broughton migrate to Wales?
Last time I was out there, the factory entrance was on the Chester Rd and firmly in Cheshire.
By: garryrussell - 19th November 2014 at 16:21
Interest they are now A.330 based.
A couple of years or so ago they said they were going to build new Belugas based on A.340’s
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