I'm always choosing the right time to go back home to see this baby

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RomanGemII@reddit

It looks like a flying beluga whale!

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spaceman_spiff1969@reddit

That’s why they named it after one!

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RomanGemII@reddit

Honestly didn't even know... and it's actually the first time I see this plane...pretty cool!

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JackRedrow@reddit

Which time and Ferry?

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Heli0s1313@reddit (OP)

I usually check Flightradar24 then try to get it when I see one comming between 16h and 17h30. I take the ferry that go to this Beluga's home

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beeblebrox_0th@reddit

If you work at Airbus there's also an app on you can find on the Airbus Play Store that has all the flights from Finkenwerder listed. Beluga, ferry flights, test flights..

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Heli0s1313@reddit (OP)

Oh crazy ! Do you have the name by any chance ?

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beeblebrox_0th@reddit

It's called Flight Schedule. Make sure to use the Google App Store in the work profile on the work phone to find it.

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Tricky-Anywhere5727@reddit

ok but your way home must be so chilling overall. i mean, i couldnt imagine something better than driving a boat in the moonlight to the dock

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Prudent_Peanut_1857@reddit

What is the point of this plane? What porpoise does it serve?

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njsullyalex@reddit

Silly pun aside,it’s used to carry oversized parts of Airbus aircraft like fuselage sections and wings between factories.

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Stoney3K@reddit

Oversized (high volume) cargo.

Today it carries mostly things like A350 fuselage segments.

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Starfleet_Captain@reddit

To quickly transport plane parts (fuselage, wings etc.) from one production site to another....for example Toulouse, France to Hamburg, Germany.

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-burgers@reddit

What a cutie

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Theres3ofMe@reddit

We see gwe regularly over the Mersey.....

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CraigL8@reddit

I see it too when out and about. When sat on my couch it flys over head but it at 10,000 so too high at that point to see.

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Certain_Marzipan_598@reddit

Flying whale has my heart

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masteroffdesaster@reddit

Hamburg meine Perle

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ASX787@reddit

Da schaut jemand Paluten

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masteroffdesaster@reddit

nein

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ProudlyWearingThe8@reddit

Goot old Finkwarder.

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Civil-Attempt-3602@reddit

This flies over me in Chester (UK) going to the airbus factory in Deeside every day and i never get sick of seeing it

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MesozOwen@reddit

Incredible that this thing flies at all.

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Amsel-71@reddit

With enough thrust, anything can fly

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MesozOwen@reddit

Yeah but it looks like it shouldn’t.

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Carbonga@reddit

Why does it have a light shining diagonally back onto the wings from around the cockpit area?

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Stoney3K@reddit

That's the wing inspection lights. They're used to look over the wings and check for icing.

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Carbonga@reddit

Ah! Thanks!

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WeatherGuys@reddit

To me the face looked like it was nostaligically looking down at the water thinking of his underwater relatives that he left behind to take to the skies in his new airborne career :)

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