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A350 MSN1 flying together with A330 and A380 prototypes
Click the image to watch the videoThe Airbus widebody family of flight test aircraft, the A380 (F-WWDD), A330 (F-WWCB) and the first prototype MSN1 of the A350 XWB, took off from 32L runway in Toulouse...
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A350 XWB driving motivation. Video
Airbus has released this video where different Airbus members talk about their jobs and functions within the A350 XWB program. Airbus has been working to join and unify the company’s international...
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Virgin Australia and Qantas are the main airlines which could commit on an...
The strongest prospect for an A350 order in Australia would be from Virgin Australia, which has been officially open to considering an order for the Airbus or from Boeing’s competing 787 range even...
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Tom Enders EADS CEO: A350 was trailing the 787 taking time for lessons learned.
EADS CEO Tom Enders spoke at Australia’s National Aviation Press Club: “We are on track to deliver the first aircraft at the end of 2014. It’s going to be a great aircraft.” He went on to say “The 350...
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ILFC and SriLankan Airlines sign 12-year lease agreement for 3 A350-900s to...
SriLankan Airlines and International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC) signed (07-Oct-2013) a 12-year lease agreement for three A350-900 aircraft. The aircraft will support the airline's long-haul fleet...
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Airbus COO Butschek: “German government has no reason to withhold the payment...
Airbus COO Günter Butschek said in an interview at Tagesspiegel newspaper that Germany should pay the remaining 600 million euros of a disputed development loan for Airbus's A350 XWB, now Airbus has...
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Aeroflot reduces the number of A350-800 ordered from 18 to 8 and delays the...
Russia’s Aeroflot will delay delivery of its 22 Airbus A350 XWBs to between 2018 and 2023. Deliveries were originally scheduled from between 2018 and 2020. The decision was approved at a company...
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The airline interest has moved to the larger sizes and Boeing & Airbus are...
Airbus delivered an A350XWB program update last week in Toulouse. Clearly the company is feeling ever more confident in the program. Airbus provided interesting data on the backlogs through October...
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MSN5 flight-test prototype will be the first A350 with Ni-cadmium batteries.
Last Feb/2013, Airbus announced that they were switching back to nickel-cadmium batteries for the A350 XWB as a risk-reduction strategy, but insisted the change will not affect EIS-entry into service...
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“A bigger stretch of the A350 is in a pre-concept phase. We can certainly do...
Airbus is looking at developing an even larger version of its new A350 airliner than the stretched version that it aims to have in service in 2017, officials at the European aircraft manufacturer said...
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A350 XWB Type Certification target: September/2014. And the first delivery to...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aircrafts/Airbus is targeting early September 2014 as the entry into service date for the A350-900. A350 program chief Didier Evrard says that the company has set that goal...
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Spirit AeroSystems only delivers 4 shipsets in the first 9 months of 2013....
In the 3rd Quarter 2013 Financial Results reported by Spirit AeroSystems there are some key data concerning the A350 XWB Program. While Spirit has reported revenues of $1.504 Billion, they include also...
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GKN Aerospace wins award for A350 XWB rear wing spar.
The British Plastics Federation (BFP) and the Worshipful Company of Horners have awarded the 2013 Horners Award for Plastics Innovation and Design to GKN Aerospace for its 'highly innovative' Airbus...
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MSN5 final-assembly started in Toulouse. It will fly in May/2014
Assembly of MSN5, the 5th and final member of the A350 XWB flight test fleet is now underway with the fuselage joining process. This follows the recent arrival of the 3 fuselage sections at the A350...
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Airbus has time to decide whether it wants to launch the A350-1100 against...
Double-stretching an airframe might be something of a mug’s game, according to Airbus’s John Leahy, but that hasn’t stopped the whispering campaign centered on an imaginary aircraft unofficially...
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A350-800 can not be canceled because some customers are proving hard to...
Airbus would be happy to ditch the A350-800, but holds nearly 80 firm orders.Airbus has been openly reluctant to actually build the shorter A350-800. But it still holds 79 firm orders for the type, and...
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A350 XWB artificial ice tests to be performed in coming days with MSN1...
The first flight-test aircraft, MSN001, as of today had accumulated 92 flights and more than 400 flight hours, while MSN003, the second flight-test aircraft, had completed 15 flights and close to 100...
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A350-900 development is “on track but there are a lot of challenges” with the...
A350 Head of Program Mr. Evrard said the development of the A350-900, the first version of the current 3-member A350 family, is on track, but he acknowledged that there are "a lot of challenges."...
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Airbus proposes a standard 18in (45cm) seat in order to try to compete...
Airbus is promoting comfort benefits from a broader seat width in a campaign which appears to be a pre-emptive strike on the impending launch of Boeing’s 777X.Competing against the A350-1000, the 777X...
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A350 Backlog before Dubai Airshow
Before the Dubai Show, this is the A350’s backlog status summarized by Aspire Aviation for Leeham News.To date, the A350 has won 759 orders from 39 different customers (excluding Kingfisher´s order for...
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