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
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.
880 passengers, but little baggage capacity for them... And the fuselage is NOT pressurised, so would require enormous changes in order to accommodate passengers
The capacity of the plane was nagging on me the whole time. I was thinking 'surely Airbus wouldn't have spent time and money on the a380 if the beluga was so easily retrofitted.' Not to mention wondering just how much the beluga can carry in terms of weight. I didn't think it was much; given it tends to carry bulky, but light items.
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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.
@@joel_ph your seat cushion can be used as a parachute in case of emergency. To use, simply hold it above your head and hope the tiny extra surface area will be enough to slow you down at all.
@@yaysimonsays151 your hands can't ever hope to hold on to the pillow as the speed of you falling will be far greater than u can imagine. Holding on to a pillow in that kind of spped will rip your arms off even if you could hold on
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.
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. 🙂
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
How about cabin pressurisation ? If everything is add up it will be heavy as a380 . The more powerful engines will require. Those a330 are not powerful enough
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.
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...
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!
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
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
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
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
"Square Cubes".... it's "Cubic Meter", mate. "Square Meter" / m^2 is for an area of something, whilst "Cubic Meter" / m^3 is for a volume of something. Great VIdeo Tho! Stay Safe! Cheers
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.
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.
they probably will only be created in trillionaire countries, the aircraft is big, with giant cargo space and more than 1,2k seats and 2 tons of overhead bin cargo
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.
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.
I'd also be concerned about this thing's balance. After all, the cargo bulge is way above its CG and it's meant to carry lightweight carbon fiber and aluminum there, not multiple tons of water.
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.
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)*
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
@@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
@@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)
@@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
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.
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.
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.
Everybody forgotten the most important things. PAX version of 747-8 is already too big, so why anything bigger? Not to mention that those 2 engines would not be enough to carry so many passengers (not just weight issue, but also enormous bleed air demand that further decreases available thrust).
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.
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 :/
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
I have seen a real super guppy in person that was used by NASA during the apollo programme with the cockpit/loading door open. I cant imagine how many people you could stuff into that, a lot. Like over 2,000 people probably.
fun fact : out of the five belugas in existance, one was solely build to fill the demand for transport of oversized stuff. they kept recieving rental demand but didn't have the free time in the four-plane schedule, so they made one more.
Please don't give Ryanair new ideas !!!
1,000 passengers just thrown into the cargo area, tell em to just hold on
@@an_f-14_tomcat 10,000 or 1,000? either way, no
@Zy Roc how about 400,000 in the antonov an-225
@Zy Roc more like antonov 225,000
@@an_f-14_tomcat like those military cargo planes transporting troops
Airbus Beluga XL with 1200 seats
Ryanair: I'm gonna make 2000
Are you kidding? RyanAir would make it 20,000
Ryanair: seats?
nooo god
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
@@mwbgaming28 As if Ryanair would bother with giving their passengers the luxury of an overhead handrail
The animations get better everyday
The one for the weekend is going to take 12 hours to render 30 seconds!
Beluga XXL
@@FoundAndExplained hi :3
jes
i agree. i just watched this video yesterday and today the improvement is remarkable
Man, imagine the boeing 747 dreamlifter as a passenger aircraft
yeah, then you get such as a 747X
@@kanepreston18 because, the dreamlifter basically have 3 floors because of the special cargo area
The Flying Sleeper (Boeing Dreamlifter) vs. The Flying Whale (Airbus Beluga)
@@Bobspineable far better than a 747
Imagine a antonov an 225 mriya be a passenger plane
I won't be surprised if we start seeing this plane at our international airport terminals in the emeraites livery
probably lol
Lmao.
@maverick aviation not a spelling bee
@maverick aviation who cares
@@L3WIS423 dafuq does that have to do with it? Emirates is Emirates. It’s not an intelligence test either.
you missed out another factor: The freight space is neither pressurized nor heated...
I don't see a problem
Who needs to breathe anyways
works for ryanair
@@alajan02 *air koryo
Yikes
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.
WTF
Ah yes, setting the spawn point on board
I think that guy was interviewed in Nas daily channel?
And daily confirmed?
So it was 1,001 people?
1:53 ah yes! The preffered unit of volume, the *"squared cubed"*
I was about to comment this!
My favourite measurement
me: yes yes yes i need this in my life
I need you in my life Ocean Channel!
@@FoundAndExplained if more belugas are going to be rendered, yeah! surely you need him.
880 passengers, but little baggage capacity for them... And the fuselage is NOT pressurised, so would require enormous changes in order to accommodate passengers
The capacity of the plane was nagging on me the whole time. I was thinking 'surely Airbus wouldn't have spent time and money on the a380 if the beluga was so easily retrofitted.' Not to mention wondering just how much the beluga can carry in terms of weight. I didn't think it was much; given it tends to carry bulky, but light items.
This vid doesn't understand the concept of weight, power and structure.
Yeah, It's MTOW is actually reduced by 15 MT compared to regular A330 due to worse aerodynamics and payload to 50T from -200F's 70T.
Bet that plane uses echolocation to navigate
Sure does!
😂
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This is a great archivement,half way to 100k, it's pretty cool that this channel has grown alot since the monerail video.
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.
Imagine 1200 ppl instantly wiped out
No worse than big ships
@@kenetickups6146 ships have lifeboats commercial planes don’t have parachutes.......
@@joel_ph your seat cushion can be used as a parachute in case of emergency. To use, simply hold it above your head and hope the tiny extra surface area will be enough to slow you down at all.
@@yaysimonsays151 your hands can't ever hope to hold on to the pillow as the speed of you falling will be far greater than u can imagine. Holding on to a pillow in that kind of spped will rip your arms off even if you could hold on
@@ding24_ that's so far from true it's not even funny
1:44 the beluga XL is actually based off the A300-600
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.
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. 🙂
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
@@NY-152 he's been reaal quiet since this dropped
@@blitsonray813 Interesting, since it legit is offered up on the Delta website!!
The beluga would be an awesome zero G plane! 😎
I remember as a kid, I also wanted to turn the beluga to either a flying aircraft carrier or a passenger plane.
How about cabin pressurisation ? If everything is add up it will be heavy as a380 . The more powerful engines will require. Those a330 are not powerful enough
What about adding the GE9X engines on that passenger Beluga
@@laffey.chan_ It's easier top just enlarge an a380
@@laffey.chan_ 4 of them
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.
Oh, it’s actually the XL one if you wanted to know the beluga model there’s six XL
9:24 I'm French, and honestly you said it pretty much correctly lol
That's some tasty ice cream!
It really is! So good you came back for seconds!
Rn beluga (correct me if im wrong) has ended production
Edit: it just means theyre not making new belugas, Theyre still in service
8:14 ...Cheap shot...
This plane was meant for high volume 'low' mass transport, so it isn't suprising that the max load capacity would become a problem.
can fit more than 1200 passengers
Ryanair: make it 10000 passengers!
I think Ryanair would rather take a used A 380 and press 1200 people in it
3:56 I thought that was my ringtone for a second
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...
The upper hull is not pressurized, but as long as it don't fly above 10k ft it's not a problem
As I understand it, the primary driver for seeking ETOPS is so they can use the Beluga to transport items to the A320 Final Assembly Line in Alabama.
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!
Fun Fact: You also need to account for the extra structure, and cabin items' mass.
Mass, electrical demands, bleed air demands.
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
Imagine the antolov-277 becoming a passenger plane, it's already big enough with cargo
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
Basically this is the result of you filling a Beluga in Elite Dangerous with lots of passenger cabins!
C of G, where is it now because that is dangerously top heavy and will roll over easily.... remember the Mary Rose ... lol
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
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
"Square Cubes".... it's "Cubic Meter", mate.
"Square Meter" / m^2 is for an area of something, whilst
"Cubic Meter" / m^3 is for a volume of something.
Great VIdeo Tho! Stay Safe!
Cheers
I like the plane pun u added at the start when u said “let’s take off”
One of my favorites channels in all UA-cam, no doubt 😎
This is the most underrated channel ever! Love your videos!
This plane has a shape only a mother could love...💋
Very good idea to clear up space at congested airports like Heathrow! Smaller planes can't carry enough passengers.
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.
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.
That's a quite T H I C C Airliner.
And congrats on achieving 50k subs!
Yes! Thank you!
It's bigger on the inside!
Are we talking about the TARDIS or the Beluga XL?
Idea: add more engines and wingspan and make it look nicer and add more fuel tanks.Then it can be the biggest of em all.
they probably will only be created in trillionaire countries, the aircraft is big, with giant cargo space and more than 1,2k seats and 2 tons of overhead bin cargo
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.
Like the private air bus A380
@@FoundAndExplained it would definitely be more flying yacht than airforce 1.
Beluga XL: I can fit 1200 passengers!
Every budget airline: you want seats? Only standing room. Take it or leave it
Finally the cat named beluga is so famous that now it has his name on planes
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.
I'd also be concerned about this thing's balance. After all, the cargo bulge is way above its CG and it's meant to carry lightweight carbon fiber and aluminum there, not multiple tons of water.
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.
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)*
*moar big*
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
@@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
@@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)
@@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
“The more compact the more cramped places”
Airbus-
Ryanair is demanding to have the AN224 as a airliner 😂😂😂
*OH NO*
you will never sell that many business class tickets! half of them will be empty.
Which is why go all economy. No first and no business class seats.
3:06
Ryanair : hmm if this plane exist I will buy it
Absolutely crazy idea. Great video though really enjoyed it. Looking forward to seeing what you do with Myria :)
A330 double deck confirmed
confirmed!
A360
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.
I love discovery and notified😂
Who needs something like that? Especially since they already stopped building the A380. There is no demand for such huge aircrafts actually...
Most fun idea? completely open interior volume with padded walls. Parabolic “vomit comet” microgravity adventures. Would be awesome!
I live in northern Germany and I see this airplane quite often. It is so beautiful....
Me too, I see it less than 100 meters above my head quite often :P
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.
Got to see this early and he updated it. Hope this channel gets the growth it deserves
It would also be pretty rare to get 1200 people that wanted to fly to the same place same time
Wouldn't that make it far, far over weight?
I mean there must be a reason for the a380 and 747 having larger wings and four engines
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.
Imagine the carnage when this misses the runway.!!
Yes!
I’d fly in it, especially with the smiley face!😊
Congrats on the 51K! 😁
I always thought that the beluga xl would make a really cool flying hotel
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
The numbers fell apart fast when the weight of payload was added. 😅 I guess there's a reason why the A380 is bigger after all. ;)
Everybody forgotten the most important things. PAX version of 747-8 is already too big, so why anything bigger?
Not to mention that those 2 engines would not be enough to carry so many passengers (not just weight issue, but also enormous bleed air demand that further decreases available thrust).
I see a big event hall for all millionairs obsessed with aircraft celebrating their wedding in the air
Yeah, let’s put some Passengers in the unpressurized cargo hold of the Beluga.
Just give them oxygen masks - what could go wrong ;-)
Airbus makes passenger beluga Ryan air:I’ll take your entire stock
*OH NO! ANTONOV GOTTA EVOLVE AGAIN!!! HE IS GONNA LOSE HIS THRONE 😱😱*
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.
Seems like the best plane for low cost carriers
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 :/
Well, now I'm really imagined a Beluga XL private jet.
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
Just stumbled upon this channel because of the YT algorithm, pretty well made video. Subbed
Hey, thanks! We are like your local friendly channel!
I have seen a real super guppy in person that was used by NASA during the apollo programme with the cockpit/loading door open.
I cant imagine how many people you could stuff into that, a lot. Like over 2,000 people probably.
The problem is that nobody needs such a big plane.
We call this masterpiece plane with no brim
I always found the beluga plane very cute looking
Well if they can make it as quiet and comfortable as an A380 it’ll be a winner.
I imagine that the altitude restriction has something to do with the unpressurised cargo hold.
fun fact : out of the five belugas in existance, one was solely build to fill the demand for transport of oversized stuff.
they kept recieving rental demand but didn't have the free time in the four-plane schedule, so they made one more.
Is there any demand for a passenger plane that big? I don't think it would ever get filled