First A350 visit to DFW

[700UW]

http://youtu.be/7FIfSPrZZ50
 
http://youtu.be/0E_byM38RTQ

 

[Deleted member 14439]

Yep. Recovered and put her in the hangar just before I left work. They would not let any of us inside it. Should be an interesting dog and pony show tomorrow!

 

[PHL]

It's actually a very good lookin' bird.  The delivery date is getting close!

 

[Topcat187]

Another airplane, I'd rather go look at cars or something.

 

[1AA]

Just another piece of equipment I have to go to school for and then we have to know how they operate one from the other. What a diverse fleet we have.

 

[kirkpatrick]

I didn't realize the A350 was part of the plan.  I looked back at my old delivery schedule from near the time of the purchase announcement.  Anyone have any idea how many and when deliveries start?
 
MK

 

[Rogallo]

22 A350-900's starting in 2017?

 

[700UW]

US originally ordered the A350-800, and it looks like Airbus isnt going to build it, so the new AA changed the order to the A350-900.

 

[700UW]

Fly by at Spirit Aerospace in NC
 
http://youtu.be/vJvfRnG-5fM

 

[traderjake]

That's one ugly paint job.

 

[Flying low]

That's one ugly paint job.

At first glance, it looks like a bunch of band-aids holding it together....

 

[zethya]

That's one ugly paint job.

They are probably testing the affects of dark and light paints on the fuselage and interior temperatures.
 

 

[700UW]

Its a tribute to being a composite airplane.

 

[PHL]

Jeez. Nobody can get excited about a new airplane any more??  Or....would you be a bit more complimentary if it was a Boeing fly by of a 787?

 

[nycbusdriver]

I can't believe anyone would show up to see a "new" airplane model flyby, especially since the design is nothing particularly new.  It was understandable that, in the early 1970s, people ined up for hours at St. Louis-Lambert Airport to walk through the new TWA Boeing 747.   It was, and in some ways still is, a radical departure from previous airplanes.  I would have understood the cheering crowd for the A380 for identical reasons.
 
The A350 simply looks like an A330 from a distance.  Who cares?