Josh Cahill's latest video, "Best of Berlin Airshow and Good Bye Beluga!", published on 17 June 2026, takes his gotravelyourway audience to one of Europe's major aviation gatherings, where military jets, transport aircraft, and a retiring Airbus workhorse share the same tarmac. The video is structured as an airshow walkthrough rather than a conventional flight review, with Cahill moving between static displays and flight demonstrations across what appears to be a full day on the ground.
Arriving at the Show
Cahill arrives at the Berlin Airshow — an event he has covered in a different form at the Dubai Air Show 2025 seven months prior, marking his second major airshow coverage within a year. The Berlin event draws a wide mix of European and international exhibitors, and Cahill wastes little time moving toward the flight line. The video's early sections establish the scale of the show: rows of commercial and military aircraft, ground crews, and the kind of access that allows a camera to get close to cockpits and engine nacelles.
One of the first aircraft to draw a strong reaction is the Eurofighter Typhoon. Cahill stops in front of the fighter jet and, at the 2:13 mark, delivers a short, unguarded verdict:
“What a beautiful bird.”
It is the first time Cahill's channel has covered the Eurofighter Typhoon, and the remark — brief as it is — captures something genuine about the aircraft's visual presence on the ground. The Typhoon is not the focus of the video, but it sets the tone: Cahill is here as an enthusiast as much as a reporter.
The A380–A400M Shared Flight Deck Connection
The video's most substantive aviation claim comes when Cahill gains access to the flight deck of the Airbus A400M military transport. Standing inside the cockpit, he draws a direct comparison to the Airbus A380, which he has reviewed across more than a dozen videos over the past decade. At the 4:06 mark, he states:
“The Airbus A380 and the A400 pretty much share the same flight deck.”
This is the first time Cahill has covered the Airbus A400M on his channel. The observation — that Airbus carried over significant avionics commonality between its largest commercial jet and its military airlifter — is presented as a point of genuine surprise rather than a rehearsed fact. For viewers familiar with Cahill's extensive A380 coverage, including his reviews of Emirates and Lufthansa products on the type, the cockpit comparison adds a layer of context that a purely commercial review would not reach. The A400M display at Berlin gives him a rare opportunity to stand in a military flight deck that borrows directly from the world's largest passenger aircraft.
Farewell to the Beluga
The emotional centrepiece of the video arrives later, when Cahill encounters the Airbus Beluga — the bulbous aircraft transporter that has ferried aircraft components between Airbus facilities for decades. This is Cahill's first coverage of the Beluga, and the title's "Good Bye" framing signals that the aircraft is either being retired or making one of its final public appearances at the show.
At the 12:25 mark, Cahill describes his reaction on seeing it up close: "I was blown away by the sight of the Beluga." The phrasing is unpolished in the best sense — it reads as an unscripted response to an aircraft that, whatever its utilitarian purpose, has an appearance that tends to stop people in their tracks. The Beluga's whale-like fuselage, oversized relative to any conventional aircraft, makes it one of the more visually distinctive machines in commercial aviation history.
Cahill closes his Beluga segment around the 12:58 mark with a direct recommendation to viewers: "If you think about visiting the air show, you should." It is a rare moment of explicit endorsement in a video that otherwise lets the aircraft speak for themselves. The advice is grounded in what he has just experienced — the combination of military hardware, commercial prototypes, and retiring icons like the Beluga makes the Berlin show a genuinely varied event for anyone with an interest in aviation.
For viewers who follow Cahill primarily for airline reviews, "Best of Berlin Airshow and Good Bye Beluga!" is a departure in format. For those interested in the broader aviation world — the aircraft types, the engineering decisions, the moments when a military transport and a superjumbo turn out to share a cockpit — it offers something the standard flight review cannot. Whether that trade-off suits a given viewer will depend on what they came to the channel for in the first place.
