Wing walkers would have prevented the incident . The April 6 incident involved a five-year-old British Airways Airbus A350-1000, registration G-XWBC, and an eight-year-old Virgin Atlantic Boeing ...

Airbus puts together its wings in a $520 million state-of-the-art facility here that John Gillbanks, head of Airbus A350 wing production, says is “specifically designed for automated wing ...

Join me for a very close encounter with the magnificent A350 and B787 of Turkish Airlines in mid-air. ... A gimbal is mounted below the wing of our chase plane to capture 360 degrees of view.

Airbus has encountered problems in drilling holes in the wings on its new A350 passenger jet, helping to drive shares in parent EADS <EAD.PA> down on Wednesday as analysts reported signals that ...

Close examination of the A350 spars reveals that the inner spar has a very significant curvature. This is because the A350 inner wing is formed into a curved gull-wing shape. By contrast, the A400M’s ...

UK investigators have determined that a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 787-9 was being pushed back without assistance from dedicated wing-walkers when it collided with a British Airway Airbus A350-1000 at ...

The A350-1000 wing cover ready to be assembled in Broughton, Wales. Airbus has started production on a new wing for the A350-1000, considered to be the next generation of the new wide-body ...

The high-performance wings of the A350 XWB aircraft family reportedly make the plane faster, more fuel-efficient and (for the passengers) quieter. The wing design includes several streamlined features ...

Flightglobal understands that the update centres on engine, wing and weight changes to boost payload-range. ... does not yet view the A350-1000 as a genuine 777-300ER rival.

Airbus SAS is sending the central wing box for its first A350 wide-body plane to the main factory in southern France, moving closer to assembling an aircraft that management has said is the ...

Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron helped Airbus officials open the company’s A350 wing factory today in Wales. The jet maker’s new s ...

The Big View; Live Fact Check Video Sponsored Content. ... My News. Register. Airbus encounters A350 wing drilling problems. By Victoria Bryan and Tim Hepher. July 11, 2012 7:07 PM UTC Updated ...