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According to news media, the Airbus Beluga XL freighter took off for the first time yesterday, from Airbus' own Toulouse-Blagnac airport.
Another plane I refuse to believe can fly (and given the looks of it, doesn't deserve to fly either).
Other planes for which I seriolusly doubt their flying capability:
- Boeing 747
- Airbus A380
- Antonov 225
To be honest, I have been sitting in two of those in european airports, and 10 hours later finding myself sitting in the same devices in similar facitlies in the US. So there's definitely something going on. Stilll, if you look at those mammoths, crawling oh-so slowly upwards, it is, at least to me, hard to fathom that they're able to do it. Just take a look at the Antonov 225 leaving Zürich: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jALTAeHLbQ
pibbur who
PS. If anyone now wants to come with the it's-against-the-law-of-physics-that-a-bumblebee-can-fly-but-the-bumblebee-doesn't-know-that-so-it-flies-anyway story - well, that one is a myth. DS.
I like the beluga aeroplane, and would fly on it, on the condition that I don't have to pass through any airports.
Quite interesting article here, correcting the theory of how wings cause lift, which many people have been wrongly taught.
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/how-wings-really-work
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