An aircraft of Airbus which is enormously huge and has been designed just like a whale has successfully completed its very first flight on Thursday.

The plane is named “BelungaXL” and has been short named as “whale in the sky”, was flown in France and completed its first test flight. The test flight was witnessed by a crowd of nearly ten thousand people.

The plane is specially designed to look like a whale, the nose area of the plane is particularly shaped like that. The duration of the test flight was four hours and eleven minutes. The flight carried three crew members. The plane was tested many times before the aircraft was taken to skies. The tests were done to ensure that the aircraft may have a smooth flight.

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The aircraft has got a length of two whales and could carry as much as fifty-one tons of load. The plane is equipped with seven hundred engines of Rolls Royce, which costs around £530 million per engine. There is a lowered cockpit under the nose which could be opened for the loading of cargo. The cargo capacity of the aircraft is one of the largest both in the civilian or military plane.

The plane is not designed for carrying passengers, so it is deficient of windows. The employees were asked to vote for the possible design of the plane, all agreed on a whale-like shape, because of which the plane is even provided with a whale’s mouth and eyes are also painted on it, as per the reports of The Sun.

As reported by Mashable, the aircraft would start its commercial flights in 2019 for the transportation of large aircraft parts for assembling lines in Germany and France. Also, the company has plans of making five of these huge whale planes in the span of next five years as a replacement of the five older versions of BelungaST.

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