A350 First Flight - "LIVE"....
 

For those who are interested in such things, this is a link to the Maiden Flight of the A350 - IF it goes, warts & all.....

Lots of 'Talking Heads' filling in time, so far....
Program commenced at 14 0700Z (14th June 2013...)

A350 XWB First Flight | Airbus, a leading aircraft manufacturer

or,

secondary*| Airbus, a leading aircraft manufacturer

Enjoy...:ok:

I can't believe I'm writing this...............that thing look's pretty groovy :cool:

Noted for 'posterity'..............and...........possible future evidence JR..!!

:}:} :p

initial impression was, i am looking at the 787 when it was first released in concept pictures

Gotta go with Jack. First Airbus I've ever thought of as aesthetically pleasing to look at.

Nice....

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it doesn't look too bad.

For an airbus

Griffo.............it'll never be the queen of the sky ;) but considering the usual airbooos offering it ain't bad! So stick that in your dirt file :ok::}

The nose looks similar to the ejet. Very nice

I watched parts of the Airbus feed last night, the little feature on the flight test crew was really well done! I was sure the Aussie press would be all over it too. Or at least acknowledge it.

The Age had a great article today titled "State of the art goes sky high [...] at Boeing" and of course "Steve Colquhoun travelled to Seattle as a guest of Jetstar, Qantas and Boeing."
Strangely enough, despite some versions of the A350 directly competing with some versions of the 787, it didn't rate a mention.

Oh well, even if Fairfax didn't like it, News Corp would have covered it:
A350 takes off for battle with Boeing.
And to be fair they did, but only couching it in terms reminding us that Airbus has a fight on their hands.

What gives? I would have thought at least some commentators could have got behind a relatively trouble free and hype free aircraft roll out, as we'll be seeing quite a few of these at Australian airports in years to come.

...or perhaps they're waiting for Paris next week!


edit: sorry for not referring to the REAL aircraft names (A350-XWB or 787 Dreamliner), I can't be bothered.