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#AIRBUS #A350WXB | Lufthansa get its first A350WXB-900……… a milestone..

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As promenade Airliner Carriers from the industry, start to set on fleet replacement of their current fleet of passenger carrier aircraft, such as Cathy Pacific in replacing their aging Boeing 747-400 fleet with the more modern, fuel efficiency faster aircraft, for the Airbus 350XWB-1000 in which at the moment is in flight qualification trials and certification process with its three testing demonstrations aircraft in which is set to be manufactured for production next year ….

In this case “Lufthansa” has undertaken its first “Airbus 350WXB-900” in which is flight destination routes is set forwarding for long haul flights, in between Munich to Delhi to Boston flight radius range… in which the Aircraft is powered up by dual Roll Royce engines.. Featuring three classes in which 224 Economy, 21 premium Economy, also 48 Business seating which new seating comforts.. Those comforts also featuring in the new next generation of all inflight Entertainment systems, in which inflight connectivity….

Lufthansa A350WXB-900 series livery is lovely simple, it straight forward with its iconic logo with it navy blue livery colours, in with the Helvetica typeface …… with the base colour white…   as you see in the first is delivered first in various parts with team of five Airbus Beluga’s towards the Toulouse assemble yards in France in which it’s constructed assembled, then painted.. Then latterly with its Rolls Royce Engines installed with the new interior cabin at the same time….. Then system tested before officially handing the aircraft over milestonely…

#AIRBUS #A350-1000 | Made its first historically performance successful maiden Flight…

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Only least within Twelve hours ago, it was the first maiden flight for the awaited “Airbus 350-1000 ( MSN059)” on 24th November 2016, in which the A350-1000, is the extension of the A350-900 series with the fuselage length of seventy four meters long in which is the longer than the Airbus 380-800 (73 meters).  In view it’s the one of the longest of the Commercial airliners… The initial maiden flight was broadcast on Periscope live with questions and answering..  as it was waiting for the Runaway to clear also for clearance, as it begun its aircraft four hour testing for certification for service for next year  as the flight testing was done at Toulouse – Blagana Airport in the southwest regions of France with the Manufacturing serial Number 0059 ( MSN059). …

In which three testing Airbus 350-1000 are built during the first test flight Airbus 350-1000 (MSN059) it had all the testing it was design to test the engine and flight systems, the following second test Airbus 350-1000 (MSN060) in which is testing for the Aircraft wiring, electrical systems, in which the third testing Airbus 350-1000 (MSN065) is testing for the aircraft cabin pressure equipment, also interior..

The Airbus 350-1000 series have a capability range of 7,950 nautical miles in which is designed for high efficiency, performance also highest degree of passenger comfort to three classes accommodating economy premium, first and business classes, also its build on top of its successful design heritage the Airbus 350-900 series… In which the dual engines are of Rolls Royce Trent XWB-97 turboprop engines… once verification certification of the Airbus 350-1000 have been finalized it’ll begin manufacturing inwardly within the second half year of 2017 with pre-orders..

#AIRBUS 350-1000 | the First #A350-1000 F-WMIL 0059- Assembly plus Painting…

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Airbus 350-1000 - photo credit to Airbus
Airbus 350-1000 – photo credit to Airbus

This later early in this year during the month of August 2016, there was an introductory new Aircraft, in which was taken towards “Airbus” Toulouse, France paint shop, in which was delivery on that summer in which was a newly constructed “Airbus 350-1000 XWB” in which is the extension of A350-900 series, in which sits at 74 meters long in which currently replace the changing market for Boeing 747-400’s or 800 series in which Cathy Pacific has done too do for fleet replacement due to the changing times of for a more fuel, economy efficiency innovative aircraft..

.Airbus have been always known to build the wing span first to accommodate any other further fuselage extensions  as its previous series the A 340 series fuselage come in various length wise.. it will be very interesting the Flagship of the Airbus, Airbus 380 -800 would do the same in the 900 to the 1000 series..  In this Airbus receives the first test flight A350-1000 with number one ,

The final components of the A350-1000 is manufactured from different parts of Europe, in which is delivered towards the Airbus Toulouse assembly plant, arrived in an heavily modified  variant five  A300-600ST – Beluga Transporter..  the aircraft fuselage is assemble in which all the components are put together, the wings, the tail, the rudders, with the all the wiring included, as for the engine mounting comes later, with the interior cabin as well

When the final A350-1000 components are all assemble then the aircraft is sent towards the Airbus Toulouse Paint house, in which the main primer is sprayed on with the usually masking, taping preparations, then the final signature livery colours is layer on with careful delicate painted artistry as finally dried it’s then transferred to final phase of the assembly with the engine mountings, it’s engine nacelles, then it’s cabin interior fitting is installed to the required customization..…..

 

 

#AIRBUS- SINGAPORE AIRLINES | Marking its 10,000 manufacture aircraft delivery… one celebratory milestone……

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As making a milestone recently on 14 October 2016 is “Airbus” with its 10,000 manufactured delivery plane towards “Singapore Airlines” in which was delivered a A350-900 series XWB the counter of Boeing 787-900 Dreamliner series.. The handover was celebrated in Toulouse, France home of Airbus aircraft construction factories…. The milestone ceremony with celebratory mile stone comments featuring shared between Airbus group CEO Tom Enders, also with Singapore Airlines CEO Goh Choon Phong..  Also as the celebration continues it was also broadcast on Social Media broadcasting Live streaming Platform Periscope on Airbus’s account in which showing the various seating classes …….

AIRBUS | first asinana airlines A380-MSN 152- HL7625- gets livery painted… ?

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During this year South Korean “Asinana Airlines” got its first “Airbus 380-800”, in the process of being manufactured, assembled in Toulouse -France… once finally assemble, checked certified  then it gets flown to Airbus’s advanced Paint Shop in Hamburg German.. normally the tail section gets it livery first as an aircraft indicator on the manufacturing  floor..  The painting process from bringing the aircraft in the hanger paint shop building 222, detailly located on the spot, masking out the essential details. Then it robotically it gets a massive dose of primer then primary coat of Paint… Then waiting for once it’s dry it gets remasked with a bandages of stencils again for the extra details that reciped in the carriers livery fine tuning it out for like a car that you just ordered only a week ago..