It seems to be a now weekly tradition on this blog to reveal more and more detail about the final exterior design of the A350 XWB. This week brings us an even clearer shot of the aircraft's new wings, fuselage and winglets. These pictures come from a competing aviation magazine's advertisements. They shed quite a bit of light about the new widebody's design. From below, the nose even looks to have a 7E7 feel to it. Also worth noticing, the Rolls-Royce Trent XWBs don't feature chevron notches at the back of the nacelles for noise reduction.
I apologize for the quality of the images, my camera was elsewhere.
Two more close up shots after the jump.
I apologize for the quality of the images, my camera was elsewhere.
Two more close up shots after the jump.
on October 16, 2008 7:30 AM | Reply
Why is the right engine (#1) bigger than the left one (#2)?
on October 16, 2008 8:48 AM | Reply
There's a rather nasty kink in the port wing - they'll want to address that prior to First flight.
on October 16, 2008 8:52 AM | Reply
I had to tilt the camera slightly to remove as much glare as possible on the paper. I figured it was better than having a big light splotch on the middle of the page.
Jon
on October 17, 2008 1:10 AM | Reply
What magazine does this image come from? can't tell?
on October 20, 2008 2:38 AM | Reply
Interesting to see 3 canoes (track farings) under the wing a la Dreamliner, although Boeing have aligned the most inboard position with the engine pylon (which makes sense from reducing stress from the engine exhaust on the flap?). Boeing seem to have won the "minimising size" comp too, which should equal less drag(?).