vendredi 14 juin 2013

Airbus A350: maiden flight Friday



Airbus has formalized the date of the inaugural flight of its new A350 XWB: it will be on Friday around 10:00 - weather permitting.

It was only a rumor is now confirmed: the first flight of jet made ​​of composite materials will be held June 14, 2013, taking off from the airport of Toulouse - Blagnac being provided to 10:00 "on the basis of visibility current program and the status of the test flight ". Airbus said in a statement that the teams make the necessary checks on the last MSN1 before giving the green light to the first flight after the "recent success of pre-flight testing, including the commissioning of reactors Rolls Royce Trent XWB on June 2, "and the first taxi tests 4.

The maiden flight of the A350 is expected to last about four hours, and then take three or four days to strip the data and get the "permit to fly" essential to a possible transition to the Paris Air Show, which takes place from 17 to 23 June

Airbus has received 613 firm orders from 33 airlines for its new jet, designed to carry 270 to 350 passengers in a typical three-class configuration. Commissioning is scheduled for the second half of 2014, the company launched Qatar Airways, which ordered 43 A350-900s and 37 A350-1000.

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