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Russia asks collaboration to China to develop a competitor of the A350 XWB...
Russia and China plan to collaborate on developing a wide-body long-haul passenger airliner, said Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin in Harbin, an aerospace-city in north China where he met...
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The A350 XWB enters in the campaign for the German Federal Election.
Airbus presses current German government to complete the pending payment in order to avoid missing the 19% of the workload and Germany wants commitments on job allocation not only for A350 XWB...
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Airbus CEO Fabrice Brégier demonstrates confidence on the A350 XWB joining a...
Airbus President & CEO, Fabrice Brégier has enjoyed his first experience on-board the A350 XWB MSN1 during a routine test flight which lasted close to 3 hours and took place over the south-western...
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72 hours for the MSN1 since mid-August. 16 flights in 20 days is a good...
Airbus has completed over 160h of flight testing -31 missions- with the first A350 prototype, having resumed the campaign on 15/August following a short break of a month after undergoing modification...
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How to change a Trent XWB engine on an A350 XWB only by a team of 3 people....
We could watched it in April/2013 with the engines loading on the MSN1. Airbus has tailor-made an electrical hoist kit to precisely control load and ease positioning of engines, while improving safety...
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Delta orders ten A330-300 instead of A350 XWB because “they want to see the...
“It is an opportunistic order that allows Delta to buy economically efficient, proven-technology aircraft." said Delta CEO Richard AndersonDelta Air Lines has announced an order for 10 A330-300 HGW...
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Fabrice Bregier Airbus CEO about the A350 XWB Program: "Still a lot on our...
Click the picture to watch the video released by Airbus where Fabrice Bregier talks about his first flight on the A350 XWB.Some interesting news and data will be deeper commented on comming posts.For...
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If Aeroflot cancels the order of 18 A350-800 model migrating to -900 or -1000...
Russian flag-carrier Aeroflot is to consider adjusting details of its A350 order, although the airline has not disclosed the nature of any amendments.It discussed its fleet modernization during a...
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Airbus takes the control of Alestis Aerospace nominating the new CEO.
The Board of Directors of Alestis Aerospace has approved the nomination of Francisco Javier Díaz Gil as CEO who will substitute Jesús García Argüelles starting on 23/September.Alestis has pointed out...
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A350 MSN1 first night-flight test done.
Last 5/September the MSN1 took off for the first time during the night. Identified as AIB35WB on FR24, it made some circuits on Toulouse with full stop, taxi and then start at 14R.It was the flight...
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“A350 XWB tests go like clockwork. Everything works correctly but Airbus...
Marwan Lahoud, EADS chief strategy and marketing officer, said on the sidelines of a French defense industry event in Pau that testing for the A350, was going well."There have been no new problems on...
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Flight-test campaign close to start a new phase. The first month was...
The initial part of the flight-test campaign is drawing to a close.Airbus expects to be able to freeze the final configuration for flap settings in various flight phases, including takeoffs, approaches...
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The Japanese carriers ANA and JAL will decide between going with the new...
In Japan, Boeing dominates with around an 80% market share. Flag carrier JAL -Japan Airlines has yet to buy an Airbus aircraft even though the political prodding to purchase Boeing jets partially built...
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VMU test planned for mid-September.
According the mentioned article, the minimum unstick speed test, or VMU (velocity of minimum unstick) is planned for mid-month. This highly intense maneuver is used to determine what the lowest speed...
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The third phase of the flight-test will start in October with the MSN3...
MSN003, the second flight A350, due to make its first flight in October, is mainly tasked with the performance and engine testing. Autoland and landing performance trials are set to commence following...
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Lufthansa would split the order of about 50 aircraft between the A350-900 and...
Bloomberg is reporting that Lufthansa will split an order for about 50 widebody aircraft between Airbus A350-900 and Boeing, becoming the first buyer of the 777X.The twin-engine jets of the purchase...
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First A350 Elevators assembled in China finished.
Harbin Hafei Airbus Composite Manufacturing Centre (HMC), a joint venture between Airbus and its Chinese partners, has presented in a ceremony the first ship set of A350 Elevators assembled in...
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EADS CEO Enders: “If German Government does not complete the payment of A350...
Kindermann asked Enders about the A350 XWB payment pending by German Federal Government; “from 1.1 billion euros were been said to, Airbus is still waiting for slightly more than half of the amount...
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What does the team of 28 test pilots do when the external factors do not...
Not all of the current flying is devoted to establishing the right configuration; systems-testing and handling-quality work is also included, particularly when external factors do not allow programs...
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Lufthansa places an order of 25 A350-900 and an option for additional 30 A350...
Lufthansa has announced its largest ever order for 59 Airbus and Boeing wide-body jets in a deal worth 14 billion euros ($18.7 billion) at list prices that will see it launch a new version of Boeing's...
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