Airbus A350 XWB First Flight Video: The Dreamliner's Nightmare Is Real
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[QUOTE]Europe's newest jetliner, the Airbus A350, successfully completed its maiden flight on Friday, stepping up the battle with arch-rival Boeing for sales of a new generation of sleek, lightweight passenger aircraft.
Watched by more than 10,000 staff and spectators, the aircraft's curled wingtips sliced into clouds above the Airbus factory in southwestern France and flew over the Pyrenees mountains, with a crew of six wearing orange jumpsuits and parachutes.[/QUOTE]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U6IJ-LS3Xs[/media]
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[url]http://www.nbcnews.com/business/airbus-ups-stakes-boeing-a350-makes-maiden-flight-6C10321447[/url]
btw dreamliner is [url=http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-12/ana-scraps-787-dreamliner-flight-after-engine-fails-to-start-1-.html]still having problems.[/url]
Hey, my dad worked for some time on that plane for his job ! Nice to see it's functionning properly.
Landing Gear?
What's with them not pulling up the landing gear?
It's a shame we still don't have any supersonic passenger jets.
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;41036559]It's a shame we still don't have any supersonic passenger jets.[/QUOTE]
The Concorde is the closest we ever got to that, and it's not in use anymore.
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;41036559]It's a shame we still don't have any supersonic passenger jets.[/QUOTE]
We had the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde]Concorde[/url] and the Tupolev Tu-144 but they were taken out of service. There isn't that much of a market desire for super-sonic commercial air traffic because regular traffic is probably "good enough". High cost and low passenger volumes was a problem.
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;41036559]It's a shame we still don't have any supersonic passenger jets.[/QUOTE]
it's illegal to break the sound barrier over land in almost every developed nation.
We're a few decades away from sub-orbital point-to-point travel anyway. supersonic passenger flight is not necessary really.
[quote]As of 2008, the SpaceShipThree concept spacecraft will be used for transportation through point-to-point suborbital spaceflight. This service could provide, for example, a two-hour trip from London to Sydney or Melbourne. (Kangaroo Route)[/quote]
(don't get your hopes up yet, it's going to be outrageously expensive at first)
[QUOTE=meppers;41037008]it's illegal to break the sound barrier over land in almost every developed nation.[/QUOTE]
Why?
yea, wtf is with the landing gear being still deployed that high up?
Those winglets are really something else. Beautiful aircraft and well done to Airbus, hope the flight tests go well!
Landing gear was probably for just in case they had to turn around and land in an emergency?
They're expecting 1000 to be ordered by 2017 :v:
[QUOTE=Im Crimson;41036535]What's with them not pulling up the landing gear?[/QUOTE]
just a safety precaution, i guess. the boeing 747 also had the gears down during it's first flight so it's not unusual.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;41037151]yea, wtf is with the landing gear being still deployed that high up?[/QUOTE]
I'd assume because it was a test flight, and they weren't flying at standard hights, so they kept the landing gear down just in case they had to land right away.
There's something awfully soothing about a plane with smoothly curved winglets...
That is one great looking plane.
Its standard procedure to keep any unproven aircraft's landing gear down during its first flight, mostly because raising them can cause complications and unneeded risk such as them not coming down again and than having to crash land your only prototype :v:
[video=youtube;1yqyBZeF6rQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yqyBZeF6rQ[/video]
See, it does work!
Plane looks a bit standard, apart from those funky wingtips.
Any plane specialists around to give us a translation of the technical details?
[QUOTE=SCopE5000;41039215]Plane looks a bit standard, apart from those funky wingtips.
Any plane specialists around to give us a translation of the technical details?[/QUOTE]
Both the A350 and B787 are making pretty big leaps in fuel efficiency from both the design and construction of the airframes and the engines along with their nacelles.
The things that really stand out are the use of composite materials to drastically reduce weight, and the most visually noticeable are the wingtips on both aircraft which reduce drag and help reduce the size of the vortices they produce.
I'm a bit of a Boeing fanboy just because of the philosophy of the company more than anything, but Airbus starting to get this airplane ready for the market is nothing but good news for the entire industry.
[QUOTE=OvB;41037128]Because:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=annkM6z1-FE[/media] [/QUOTE]
I'd imagine the reason is it would be annoying to hear loud bangs everytime an airplane flew over your house, which is several times a day?
You would be hearing sonic booms multiple times a day. Good way to wake the baby.
this made me feel uneasy because I've been having marathons of Air Crash Investigations
[QUOTE=mscmn;41039596]Both the A350 and B787 are making pretty big leaps in fuel efficiency from both the design and construction of the airframes and the engines along with their nacelles.
The things that really stand out are the use of composite materials to drastically reduce weight, and the most visually noticeable are the wingtips on both aircraft which reduce drag and help reduce the size of the vortices they produce.
I'm a bit of a Boeing fanboy just because of the philosophy of the company more than anything, but Airbus starting to get this airplane ready for the market is nothing but good news for the entire industry.[/QUOTE]
i'm curious, what is the philosophy of boeing?
[QUOTE=Saxon;41038978]Its standard procedure to keep any unproven aircraft's landing gear down during its first flight, mostly because raising them can cause complications and unneeded risk such as them not coming down again and than having to crash land your only prototype :v:[/QUOTE]
This, this, this. They're just trying to find out of the plane can actually work. They're not worrying about landing gear quite yet.
[QUOTE=Wizards Court;41039844]i'm curious, what is the philosophy of boeing?[/QUOTE]
As far as commercial aircraft design goes, they have a bit of an underlying principle that the pilot is flying the airplane and all the systems built into it serve as aids, whereas I've always felt Airbus is trying more to push towards a much more autonomous aircraft where the pilot is there to babysit the systems more than anything.
Since the airlines are where I want to end up some time in the future that kind of thing is important to me
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;41039659]I'd imagine the reason is it would be annoying to hear loud bangs everytime an airplane flew over your house, which is several times a day?[/QUOTE]
I live around 30 miles away from the busiest airport in the world. I would not want to hear dozens of sonic booms a day.
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