The new Airbus A350 is ready for its first flight!

Airbus In Final Preparations For A350 First Flight

With final ground tests taking place in Toulouse, the first Airbus A350 test aircraft looks only days away from entering a flight test program expected to last around 12 months.

MSN001 is expected to perform high-speed taxi test and high engine power runs on June 7 after the aircraft’s Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engines had been powered up for the first time on June 2. “That was a great moment,” says Executive Vice President and head of the A350 program Didier Evrard at Airbus’s Toulouse facility.

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