First BelugaXL becomes
airborne for its maiden flight
#BelugaXL
Toulouse, 19 July 2018 – The first
BelugaXL took off this morning from Blagnac in
Toulouse, France at 10:30 hrs local time, for its maiden flight over
south-western France. The aircraft is the first of five BelugaXL to enter into service later in 2019 and to
gradually replace the BelugaST transporters.
The crew in the cockpit on board
this flight comprised: Captain Christophe Cail,
Co-Pilot Bernardo Saez-Benito Hernandez and
Test-Flight Engineer Jean Michel Pin. Meanwhile, monitoring the aircraft systems
and performance in real-time at the flight-test-engineer’s (FTE) station were
Laurent Lapierre and Philippe Foucault.
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