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Europe’s answer to the Boeing 787 Dreamliner

First flight of the Airbus A-350 XWB fuselage
with carbon fiber

greener engines: fuel consumption -25%. Orders received from various companies are 616 examples

Into For the new passenger airplane Airbus A350 XWB-msn1 it’s time the first flight. Friday morning pulled off for the first time the wheels from the runway of Toulouse-Blagnac, a historic track because from here took off between, on the other, the supersonic Concorde A380 superjumbo.

Airbus A-350 XWB, first flight

THE EUROPEAN RESPONSE TO B-787 – On board the crew consists of six men, pilots and flight engineers, under the command of Peter Chandler, chief pilot Airbus and former British RAF pilot. Among the engineers there is also the Italian Emanuele Costanzo is particularly concerned with motor control. The Airbus A-350 XWB (Extra Wide Body) is the European counterpart to the American Boeing B-787Dreamliner, the first to be built with the fuselage made of carbon fiber. This is also the characteristic of the new Airbus: a technology for the first time adopted massively to make the aircraft lighter.

ENGINES: LESS CONSUMPTION – This allowed us to use more environmentally friendly engines cut fuel consumption by 25 percent. For this purpose the British Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engine developed especially the. The first flight lasted four hours is intended to test the fundamental aspects (starting with the closure of the wheels of the carts), but others will follow with five aircraft until the second half of next year when it will enter service with Qatar Airways has ordered 80 copies. A total orders received from various companies are 616, a significant number that shows how the airlines they need to renew the lines with airplanes less expensive and more “green”.

debuted the Airbus A-350

THREE VERSIONS – The new jet is available in three versions (800-900-1000) carrying 250 to 350 passengers and has a cost that varies from 245 to 320 million euro. Like all Airbus aircraft is equipped with electrical controls. His project was announced at the 2006 Farnborough Airshow British, but the construction has accumulated two years of delays because the first version proposed, less advanced technologically, it was not well accepted by the airlines. The radical change and innovative approach similar to the Boeing 787 unblocked the situation and the interest of ensuring carriers already a considerable carnet of orders. Among the advantages are the internal environmental conditions comparable to those at an altitude of 1,800 meters, a lower level than the other planes. The new European jet as well as to compete with the Boeing B-787 also contend the market of another plane of success, the great twin-engine Boeing B-777.