Like the Beluga, the XL is based on Airbus family aircraft, this time the A330-200 although you would be hard pushed to see it with its drooped nose and radically different, bulbous, upper fuselage.

PLANE spotters in the West Midlands were treated this week as a giant Airbus Beluga XL plane was spotted in the region’s skies. The whale-like aircraft was forced to divert to Birmingham Airport on ...