First Airbus A.350 Structually Complete

[dodger]

Well looking on their site that view of the cockpit looks great, no clutter proper space age!

It will be interesting to see who makes it for Flight Sim and how well they make the flight deck,

Cheers,

Roger.

[FlyTexas]

Agreed Roger. The cockpit really looks nice. The cockpit is the only thing that sets me off about the 787. A nice looking cockpit but those yokes gotta go. Sidesticks would look much better in that cockpit.

Brian

[DaveB]

I can see where the 'Vanguard' connection comes in though I doubt I'd have thought of it had it not been mentioned. A couple of heat exchanger intakes would have made it more obvious Not sure about it looking like a Dreamliner only better We've pretty much reached a stage where they all look very much alike these days. I can still tell a Boeing from an Airbus but that's about it.

ATB
DaveB

[Tomliner]

Wonder if it will sound like a Vanguard ? EricT

[Garry Russell]

Similarity to the 7l*7 is bent wings etc.

Can't see anthing Vanguard like in the nose??

[DaveB]

You have to use your imagination a bit. On the bigger shot of the 3 on the Airbus site (bigger that is if you don't zoom in), if you don't look at the windshields.. the shape of the nose is reminiscent of the Vanguard. It looks less so on the other shots though. It's one of those 'at a certain angle' things I guess

ATB
DaveB

[TSR2]

Yep, just in that shot, and probably to do with the positioning of the nose gear doors.

[thomasburnside]

To me the A350 looks like a single deck A380.

[TSR2]

Yep, I agree with that Thomas

[Garry Russell]

They have used a modified A.380 flightdeck area with the windscreen adapted from the 380 as far as possible. So in a way, since they've moved from the modified A.300 series to a new position, they are sort of standing in the A.380 camp and knocking up a single decker.