The Beluga also utilized a hinged nose design that allowed for the front-loading of freight. Airbus decided it needed more transporters to cope with rising demand for its planes and an even bigger ...

However, there was a problem with the existing Beluga aircraft – they could not transport an entire A350 on one flight. The plane would fly only the wing and one of the design drivers ...

Beluga whales, also known as ‘white whales’, are social and smart marine mammals that are well adapted to living in very cold waters. Their incredible echolocation abilities, however, make them ...

Like the legendary Moby Dick, the full-grown beluga whale is snowy white. Yet unlike Herman Melville's mostly fictitious albino sperm whale, which had only Captain Ahab to deal with, the beluga swims ...