Airbus A350 first flight video link
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Are they trying to appeal to corporate decision makers or the flying public? If the later, somebody asking "stupid" question might be just the right choice.
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So little about the actual aircraft yet they are showing live footage of it.
It's almost as if they are talking down to the audience and I agree it is a really shoddy show.
It's almost as if they are talking down to the audience and I agree it is a really shoddy show.
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Hi,
First post here, so be gentle
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Great job by Airbus - he A350 looked fantastic in the air, although the presentation of the first flight could have stood some improvement.
Watching the live footage, I can see a small plume of white smoke from a vent on the bottom of the portd engine. What would that be, and is that normal given the time at idle after landing?.
First post here, so be gentle
.Great job by Airbus - he A350 looked fantastic in the air, although the presentation of the first flight could have stood some improvement.
Watching the live footage, I can see a small plume of white smoke from a vent on the bottom of the portd engine. What would that be, and is that normal given the time at idle after landing?.
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It's cute from the front. Looks like a scaled-up 757 with even more scaled up engines, although it does still have that "pear-shaped" airbus plastron thing going on from behind.
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It's cute from the front. Looks like a scaled-up 757
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Does anyone know why they have numbered the model variations from 800 up (800/900/1000) ? Why not A350-100 and upwards
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The 350 looks very distinctive with the new streamlined nose with black spectacle windows, the scimitar Whitcomb devices, the maintenance of fuselage cross section as far aft as possible, the close coupled engines, the small horizontal tail and the large wing root fairings extending under the belly.
All very proportionate, so that it doesn't look as big as it really is.
All very proportionate, so that it doesn't look as big as it really is.
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It certainly looks right; and we all know the old saying 
The cockpit windows put me in mind of a Trident!
The first flight 'ceremony' was strange but then again I've a feeling the product is going to sell itself.
The cockpit windows put me in mind of a Trident!
The first flight 'ceremony' was strange but then again I've a feeling the product is going to sell itself.
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I am Boeing through and through .. however it does LOOK the part, which is a second for Airbus ( 1st .. A330). I am sure it will prove to be very successful ...
I agree .. it is a sloppy TV production, for what is probably not a sloppy product ...
I agree .. it is a sloppy TV production, for what is probably not a sloppy product ...
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I played around with the 3-D toy at the airbus site, to get a look at her from varying angles.
A beautiful bird.
I played around with the 3-D toy at the airbus site, to get a look at her from varying angles.
A beautiful bird.
Cute as a button! - Coincidentally I've just been watching the gorgeous Thompson Dreamliner doing circuits over my garden near Robin Hood. I can't believe how quiet it is. - If AB have pulled the same trick living near airports is going to get a lot easier.
Not that it bothers me.
Not that it bothers me.
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.. who live in a Nintendo world so far from reality.
Not long ago a first flight was to see if it flies.
Then to see whether it crashes on landing.
Today was not a simulator. Those pilots were risking
their lives and you complain about the tv presentation.
Believe me, the show was not marketing and has no impact on sales. Customers don't
care about the tv nor your opinion. This was a demonstration of engineering excellence.
Anoraks should be banished to an infested spotter's dungeon where they belong.
It was a real, dangerous, first test flight. Better understand that and rejoin the real world.
Not long ago a first flight was to see if it flies.
Then to see whether it crashes on landing.
Today was not a simulator. Those pilots were risking
their lives and you complain about the tv presentation.
Believe me, the show was not marketing and has no impact on sales. Customers don't
care about the tv nor your opinion. This was a demonstration of engineering excellence.
Anoraks should be banished to an infested spotter's dungeon where they belong.
It was a real, dangerous, first test flight. Better understand that and rejoin the real world.
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