Airbus A350 Rolls Out of Paint Shop

[deeknow]

And here's the virtual A350 .. taking Camil Valiquette's FSX model out for a spin this morning from Aerosoft's Toulouse...

[Ian Warren]

I noticed that at Flightsim.com , the interesting idea to spread the undercarriage trucks to displace the weight and footprint .

[deeknow]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Jun 15 2013,9:50 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I noticed that at Flightsim.com , the interesting idea to spread the undercarriage trucks to displace the weight and footprint .

yeah the whole undercarriage looks like a scaled up A330, could be some commonality there.
In the coverage they mention theres a plan to have a common rating between the 330 and 350, I guess it's certain cockpit/instrument elements, surely not completely common?

[Ian Warren]

as i pointed out early this post the fazing out of the earlier that are mention .. could right trade over to new to keep customer base and the wheel base defined the the 330s .

[deeknow]

They were REALLY talking up the 330 in the coverage yesterday, are selling plenty of them so no immediate plan to supersede it until the 350 is well into production, be a few years surely

[Charl]

QUOTE (deeknow @ Jun 15 2013,9:44 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

And here's the virtual A350...

As you do, as you do...



Cam's models are very much in the "almost got it right again" department, but hey if that's all you have...

The undercarriage is designed for growth to the -1000 which has a 3-axle main gear truck.
It unloads the (composite) wing by being attached to a beam which allows the wide stance.

QUOTE (deeknow @ Jun 15 2013,11:29 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

They were REALLY talking up the 330

Order book is 262, worth a penny or two!
And I guess reassuring the customer base that buying A330's is no bad thing when the pilot conversion to A350 is a couple of weeks only!

Actually I noticed the AB Marketing Man take a tilt at the B777-300ER yesterday - hard to figure out where these models compete, really.

What is clear, is that the A350 is a direct response to Airbus customers' requirements - remember they scrapped the original "stretched A330" idea completely as a result of Emirates/Qatar/Singapore comments.

You have to admire a programme like this, it is massive, 7 years in the making, and thousands of people and bits to organise.
If you pull it off, a morning waving little AB flags next to the runway is probably not too much fanfare, really.

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Charl @ Jun 15 2013,12:48 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

If you pull it off, a morning waving little AB flags next to the runway is probably not too much fanfare, really.

Hope the aircraft had a shave before going in front off all those crowds , customers are always right they say

[Charl]

Looked pretty clean to me...
"Customer" in this case is the airlines, who are not your Friend.
They are there to jam as many fare-paying bodies in as they can get away with.

Luckily flight bookings are a little more transparent these days, so you can pick a seat.
Two-away-from-an-aisle in a 10-abreast configuration?
I'd change airline on the spot.

[Ian Warren]

I'm one who always went the window seat .. not followed on the build of the 350 but that was a "big thing" with Boeing 787s and actually made the aircraft look smaller to most at first glance , now was this a feature on the this new aircraft , Cam's model dose not show any real change ... looking back on the video .. a stripped interior dose not convey a increase .

[Charl]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Jun 15 2013,12:15 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I'm one who always went the window seat ...

Me too, this one's windows aren't that big but you get electric dimming to compensate.
Big plus for flyers is full-time wifi, who needs a window then?

I read with increasing horror Boeing is going to carve 4" out of the B777 interior so they can also go up to 10-abreast!
The bean-counters from the "emerging economies" have spoken...

[Ian Warren]

Again they forget other than the extra large a few of us still are bigger even since the 1950s ... modern man has grown since the old days of the HMS Victory and a good passage on the Cutty Sark .. dang bean counters won't like steerage so why should we have to put up with it .

[Charl]

The landing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YwdlljSdOo...eature=youtu.be
huge flare but greased in.

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Jun 15 2013,11:53 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hope the aircraft had a shave before going in front off all those crowds

Moustaches were in fact still in place, sniffing all those little eddy currents and sending the good news to the telemetry...

[Ian Warren]

Least it is a better looking aircraft than the 380 , think i should have been on the design team for that one .... but mes French is like in fries .

[HamiltonWest]

This Link's for you Ian I take It you will be rushing out to buy up Large Not
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[Ian Warren]

That,s no fun Pull the string and it fly's itself ... oh by the way .. you have to hold the string well to your Left or Right or won't fly at all


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[cowpatz]

QUOTE (Charl @ Jun 16 2013,1:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

The landing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YwdlljSdOo...eature=youtu.be
huge flare but greased in.

Looks very much like a reduced flap setting used for the landing (presumably to cover the go around possibility). Could explain the large flare.

[Charl]

Interesting... I'd have thought higher landing speed = higher stress on brand new untried landing gear!

QUOTE (HamiltonWest @ Jun 19 2013,11:06 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

This Link's for you Ian I take It you will be rushing out to buy up Large

I know that Ian is looking for something new to hang his TrackIR clip onto.
I have found the Perfect Solution:

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Ian it's in the mail, soon as I figure out the exchange rate...

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Charl @ Jun 19 2013,3:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Ian it's in the mail, soon as I figure out the exchange rate...

Well that will just Cap it off ! .. yeah $0.00 .. do ya forward or do ya go backwards .. THEN Using trackIR do you sit the cap beside ya .. to the left of ya or to the right of me .. this is Heading to a major problem , just so many problems ...Arrrrr ARBUST ... back to the drawing board maybe

[Charl]

Seriously! I ordered it for you, Ian.
Then I noticed the "Minimum Order" is 30 Euro!
How many takers for A380 caps do we have here then??

[deeknow]

QUOTE (Charl @ Jun 19 2013,3:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Seriously! I ordered it for you, Ian.

Too funny !!! ... I'd order him a Classic 737-300 Cap too