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Loading system for outsized military cargo on Beluga airplane

Tested with a CH-53 medium-lift helicopte

Airbus Defence and Space has developed and tested a loading system to lift outsized military cargo into the Beluga A-300/600ST aircraft. The capability was successfully tested during a verification exercise with the German armed forces, the system’s first customer, by loading a CH-53 military medium-lift helicopter into the Beluga. The new self-funded cargo loading system and jig, developed by engineers at...

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Manching, Germany, 09/22/2022 10:31
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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