A350 XWB First Flight 14/06

greenybaby · 13-06-2013 2:30pm #1

http://www.a350xwbfirstflight.com/

Great 360° view of the cockpit, orders, build etc, plus live streaming of test flight tomorrow!!

Bessarion · 13-06-2013 2:53pm

First flight is planned for 4 hours......they need 10 hours of trouble free flight to be permitted a flyover at the Paris Airshow in La Bourget........:D

Would be a nice PR coup with Boeing only getting the B787 back in the air recently.

kub · 13-06-2013 2:57pm

There is our own little EI first on the list of customers.

donvito99 · 13-06-2013 3:01pm

The benefit of Aer Lingus, as opposed to the English version.

Bessarion · 13-06-2013 3:03pm

kub wrote: »

There is our own little EI first on the list of customers.

Well down from 1st......they were originally supposed to get delivery in 2014...along with Finnair, they were to be the 1st 2 European airlines. However they pushed back their delivery slots to 2015/2016....with a further 3 "not before 2017"

jamo2oo9 · 13-06-2013 3:30pm

This would definitely be the highlight of the show if she goes to it next week! Hopefully I can catch live tomorrow morning before heading off to work

kub · 13-06-2013 5:43pm

Bessarion wrote: »

Well down from 1st......they were originally supposed to get delivery in 2014...along with Finnair, they were to be the 1st 2 European airlines. However they pushed back their delivery slots to 2015/2016....with a further 3 "not before 2017"

Sorry what i mean by first is as per the customer list on the a350 page. The A followed by an E has its benefits.

A320 · 13-06-2013 7:45pm

I'll probably hide in the avionics compartment to watch this in the morning

David086 · 13-06-2013 9:45pm

Love the winglets on the A350

brandon_flowers · 14-06-2013 7:50am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC9qmo7roWc

Live stream here

Bessarion · 14-06-2013 7:56am

Just watching it now....have to say Airbus are really plugging this very well.....no big media hoohah but great use of web publishing. EG the roll out pics were online within 30 minutes of the hanger door opening.

jamo2oo9 · 14-06-2013 7:58am

Yeah, you'd have to admit, Airbus is doing a better job at this than Boeing with their 787 considering the media publicity, production and launching of the plane

jamo2oo9 · 14-06-2013 8:02am

And she's off the ground! Looks fantastic

brandon_flowers · 14-06-2013 8:04am

Looked very good except they kept the wheels down until out of view so we got no shot of it clean.

After all the technical talk John Leahy is on now... puke!

squonk · 14-06-2013 9:29am

The stream is down now... Bugger

. I was hoping to catchup

basill · 14-06-2013 9:43am

On initial test flights the gear stays down.

brandon_flowers · 14-06-2013 9:55am

Wheels are up at the moment.

greenybaby · 14-06-2013 10:04am

Bsal · 14-06-2013 11:02am

You can follow the flight test on FR24 http://www.flightradar24.com/, the callsign is AIB350 its south of Toulouse at the moment. Its due to land just before 1 our time.

greenybaby · 14-06-2013 12:32pm

greenybaby · 14-06-2013 1:58pm

zone 1 · 15-06-2013 9:39am

what was the reason for AERLINGUS pushing its order back.

Bessarion · 15-06-2013 10:46am

zone 1 wrote: »

what was the reason for AERLINGUS pushing its order back.

Decision was taken about 2 years ago. At the time I think they cited pushing it back gave them more breathing room in relation to financial outlay. In addition the A350's are not really needed so soon as EI has a relatively young fleet of A330. (Only 2 of them are over 6 years old)