In Pictures: First Flight of the Airbus A350-1000
November 25, 2016<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15px;">The Airbus A350-1000 test aircraft, powered by </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Rolls-Royce Trent </span>XWB-97<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15px;"> engines, made its first flight on Nov. 24, marking the start of a test campaign that will use three test aircraft and is expected to last less than one year. Flight testing of the relatively simple derivative aircraft may not prove to be a major challenge given the experience of the recent A350-900 campaign.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15px;">Experimental test pilots at the controls said the </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15px;">aircraft behaved “remarkably similar to the A350-900."</span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15px;">There are currently 195 orders for the A350-1000s. </span></p>