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Firstly, I wish you all my best wishes for the new year 2011 promises to charge for all Airbus teams to be ready for first flight the A350XWB at the beginning of 2012.

How not to start this first post of 2011 by the Airbus A350 XWB and more specifically, by the visit of Didier Evrard December 23, 2010 in Toulouse for the official start of the Iron Bird A350.

The Iron Bird is simply a test system to almost life-size re-create the ground conditions encountered by aircraft flying at a speed of 800-900 km / h and an altitude of between 8 and 12 km. That step is essential for the A350 before its first flight in 2012.

For A350 XWB, Airbus has taken a new approach. Rather than making a replica of the aircraft as is traditionally the case, the Iron Bird is used, firstly, to integrate different systems and test their maturities. Generation system and the hydraulic system of the hydraulic flight controls were installed to begin testing in early 2011. The objective is to detect potential problems earlier in order to integrate them into the design.

Other systems continue to be installed for testing with the goal of having a first flight "virtual" in late March 2011.



First of all, I Wish You Would Like to all a very happy and prosperous New Year 2011, which will be very busy for Airbus team to be ready for the first flight of the Airbus A350XWB by the beginning of 2012.

I wanted to start my first blog post of 2011 with A350XWB update with the visit of the A350XWB Iron Bird by Didier Evrard in Toulouse on December 23rd to mark the switch-on of hydraulic power.

For those not familiar with Iron Bird, this is a special test facility enabling to reproduce, on the ground, the conditions found by an aircraft flying at speed of 800-900 km/h and at altitudes of 8-12 kilometers.

Airbus has taken a new approach to Iron Bird development with the A350XWB. Rather than replicating the aircraft as is traditionally the case, it is being used initially to integrate various systems and concentrate on their maturity. Its hydraulic generation system and the hydraulic circuits for the flight control systems are all now installed, with initial tests for these systems due to start in the new year. The aim is to detect any problems early to feed back into the design.

This will proceed in parallel with a number of further systems installations so that the first 'virtual flight' can be performed around the end of March 2011.