Airbus Beluga XL 2019 is the successor to the Beluga which has been in operation since 1995, and is six meters longer and one meter wider than the original. The transporter cargo plane which is nicknamed “the flying whale” is powered by two Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engines and is capable of flying around 4000 Km per trip. The Airbus A330 based XL features the same low-slung cockpit as the original developed two decades ago with a cargo volume of 2209 meter cube.