General / Off-Topic The new BELUGA is released !

[Patrick_68000]

Awesome ! Great !

I did not think that it would be released during the July holidays

https://imgur.com/a/GcKppcq

 

[Deep Thought 42]

That is one Ugly craft lol
don't think i will be getting one

 

[Lightspeed]

Among the top 1% of Airbuses out there !

 

[Riverside]

The name is certainly apt

 

[Tiny_Rick]

Among the top 1% of Airbuses out there !

Always makes me wonder what they are the top 1% of...

Top 1% of all successful flights, or top 1% of all in-flight failures... both technically top 1%!

 

[Ophion]

Looks more like a dolphin to me

 

[Riverside]

The name is certainly apt

 

[Limoncello Lizard]

It needs a spoiler.

 

[Friendsofbucky]

As an avid flyer of planes, that one's hella ugly.

 

[BL1P]

It needs a spoiler.

Spoiler

Spoiler

Spoiler

Spoiler

just for you

 

[Le-Betz]

Spoiler

Spoiler

Spoiler

Spoiler

just for you

You are russian?

 

[777Driver]

Max cargo capacity 52 tonnes, max range 2.5 megameters, max speed 216 M/S... Makes the Cobra MkIV look good.

 

[Bryan K]

...Are we allowed to use the term “fugly” here?

Because it applies in this case.

 

[Neokortex]

Today I was in a Beer Garden with friends and hear the sound of an ASP X!
It took me a while to realise its a Helicopter D

I guess we play to much

 

[M00ka]

It might look ugly to some, but if you had to transport by air something humungous in size, I guarantee this would suddenly seem the most elegant aircraft in the skies!

 

[lenna]

Looks more like a dolphin to me

I was thinking exactly the same thing when I first saw it but if you look at some of the pictures of a Beluga whale on Wikipedia I can see the resemblance too.

Dolphins in general seem to have longer "snouts" with a couple of exceptions.

 

[Julio Montega]

Always makes me wonder what they are the top 1% of...

Top 1% of all successful flights, or top 1% of all in-flight failures... both technically top 1%!

They are the top, obviously, since they survived the
"chat channel cruise ship slaughter".
Counting in all the past flight lines and individual contractors.

 

[IndigoWyrd]

Today I was in a Beer Garden with friends and hear the sound of an ASP X!
It took me a while to realise its a Helicopter D

I guess we play to much

I don't like beer gardens... mine never grow, no matter how deep I plant the beers.

 

[Sylveria]

It simply cannot be. There's no spoiler.

 

[Wolfe3]

Today I was in a Beer Garden with friends and hear the sound of an ASP X!
It took me a while to realise its a Helicopter D

I guess we play to much

Yep.
That pic makes me want to launch a hatch breaker...