Airbus' whale-sized plane made an oversized maiden flight

That's not a bird or a plane, it's a ... whale.
This is what it looks like when a massive oversized plane takes to the sky: Airbus' aptly named BelugaXL plane took off on a test flight Thursday morning at the Toulouse-Blagnac Airport in France. 
The 4-hour, 11-minute flight, which took place with three crew members aboard, was the BelugaXL's first flight before it takes off in 2019 to transport large aircraft parts to assembly lines in France and Germany. Crew members on the ground helped t