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beluga transport plane.

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Who/what the heck uses a beluga???
~Nate

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That's what they used to bring over the Statue of Liberty.

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1985 300D

Used for lightweight, but very large things, like rocket/missile bodies - or for Boeing, flying parts of their unassembled airplanes around to the final assembly point.

A modified 747 (the Dreamlifter) holds fuselage sections of the new 787 Dreamliner inside. Yeah, that's globalization. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://boeingblogs.com/randy/images/Alenia_Dreamlifter_ip.jpg&imgrefurl=http://boeingblogs.com/randy/archives/2007/03/&usg=__jKq6_40D-ZYINBaAeoJLADBLf8E=&h=307&w=480&sz=61&hl=en&start=7&um=1&tbnid=aApHCEhjto_Q7M:&tbnh=83&tbnw=129&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddreamlifter%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-us%26um%3D1

I'm more of an Antonov 225 man myself...



hopefully I'll get to see this big bugger for real one day.

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1993 320TE M104
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past:

1983 230E W123 M102
1994 E300D S124 OM606 (x2)
1967 250SE W108 M129
1972 280se 3.5 W108 M116
1980 280SE W116 M110
1980 350SE W116 M116
1992 300E W124 M103
1994 E280 W124 M104
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"music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business" -Pepys

If your in London that shouldn't be too difficult. I've seen the AN124 up close a time or two in Connecticut but I believe the AN225 makes fairly regular flights into Heathrow. (I'll ask my brother in a few days if there is anyway to find any scheduled flights)

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1990 300SEL Smoke Silver (Parting out)
1991 350SDL Blackberry Metallic (481)

"The thing is Bob, its not that I'm lazy...its that I just don't care."

Unfortunately as far as I know the 225 has never visited Heathrow, though it's regular(ish) into more freight-orientated airports in the UK... I was trying to find a way of tracking it's movements so I could have an excuse for a road trip to see it but haven't found a good site yet...

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1993 320TE M104
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past:

1983 230E W123 M102
1994 E300D S124 OM606 (x2)
1967 250SE W108 M129
1972 280se 3.5 W108 M116
1980 280SE W116 M110
1980 350SE W116 M116
1992 300E W124 M103
1994 E280 W124 M104
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"music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business" -Pepys