Airbus A.350 Flies...Friday 14th June

[511Flyer]

WOW! He just climbed rapidly to 25000ft, and passed through 20000ft at 4995fpm! Now at 490kt. This is some aircraft.

[dodger]

Hi Dennis,

Like you i'm retired and enjoying this morning, watching on Flightradar and on Airbus live feed and waiting to see the landing,

I do have this A350 on FSX by AFS-design so it is great to see the real aircraft at last! they are certainly putting the aircraft though it's paces for a first flight i think but that's todays technology.

Cheers,

Roger.

[dodger]

Landed fine, 4hrs testing over, great to see,

The Beeb didn't even show it! no suprise there then.

Cheers,

Roger.

[speedbird591]

Very interesting. Learning how retired people fill their days I can't get the hang of it yet. After cooking and eating my bacon and egg sandwich and loading the dishwasher, I followed the test flight while I was doing a bit of ironing. Now that's all over I have to watch the MotoGP practise on Eurosport. Then I'll have to read the mail which will take me to my afternoon nap.

Question: When do you find time to read the paper?

Ian

[NigelC]

He absolutely greased it on, great landing for a first FOR type, let alone ON type.

[dodger]

Very interesting. Learning how retired people fill their days I can't get the hang of it yet. After cooking and eating my bacon and egg sandwich and loading the dishwasher, I followed the test flight while I was doing a bit of ironing. Now that's all over I have to watch the MotoGP practise on Eurosport. Then I'll have to read the mail which will take me to my afternoon nap.

Question: When do you find time to read the paper?

Ian

Steady on there Ian! you have got to learn to pace yourself in Retirement, no rushing about now,

I found it very strange on my last day at work driving out of the firms car park and thinking WOW ,no more coming in there!
Luckily i have my hobby which has kept my old grey matter from freezing up, i hear friends of mine who have now retired and they say they get bored mainly i think because they have no interest in anything, sure, i get a bit low at times like everyone else,

So you look after yourself and enjoy your retirement Ian,

Best Regards,

Roger.

[GHD]

I expected on retirement that I would have the roads to myself between the rush hours. Not a bit of it. Where do these poeople come from

[511Flyer]

Rush hours George? They last all day and most of the night in Surrey.

[Garry Russell]

Lthough being compared to the 787 this is in a slightly different league.

However, on Thursday, the day before this flight, Boeing announced that they will formally launch the Boeing 787-10 at the Paris Air Show.

Seen as a direct competitor to the A.350, BA is down for eighteen. Interesting as they have an order for A.350 aswell.

[SkippyBing]

I'd say all Airbus need is one more 787 battery fire to have the market sewn up.