Airbus A350-1000

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Here is a single picture of Airbus' latest aircraft to fly - the A350-1000 - showing the main landing gear assemblies in flight. I am pleased to be associated with this particular LG because I played a small part in assembling it last year in Toulouse and I'm looking forward to spending more time there this year as production ramps up.

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Nice one rick , its a mighty impressive aircraft , are you planning on making the Revell a350 , i know its the shorter 900 version but you will have a good idea of how it builds now youve part made the full size aircraft!!
 

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Nice one rick , its a mighty impressive aircraft , are you planning on making the Revell a350 , i know its the shorter 900 version but you will have a good idea of how it builds now youve part made the full size aircraft!!

Civil airliners aren't my thing mate. At any rate you'd need to do a serious amount of surgery as the fuselage is longer, the wings bigger and the landing gear is also different - the -900 has four wheel bogies. I did see a thread on this type on Britmodeller I think; better just to wait for a newly tooled model of it.
 

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Nice assembly job Rick. :smiling3:

Seen a few of these A350 things at Auckland in Cathay colours. A smart looking beast. I'm about to go 80's retro in the 737 Classic. Now where'd I put my Def Leppard t-shirts?
 

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Nice assembly job Rick. :smiling3:

Seen a few of these A350 things at Auckland in Cathay colours. A smart looking beast. I'm about to go 80's retro in the 737 Classic. Now where'd I put my Def Leppard t-shirts?

I've built a few of those gears too Joe. I'm sure there is a jet flying around with Def Leppard or Iron Maiden painted all over it, I'm sure I saw it at WAW last October.
 

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I think I saw an Iron Maiden 757 a few years ago and they definitely had a 747 in more recent times.

Looking forward to the -300 and -400. School starts soon, will no doubt end up with the ins and outs of the landing gear :smiling3:
 
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I think I saw an Iron Maiden 757 a few years ago and they definitely had a 747 in more recent times.

Looking forward to the -300 and -400. School starts soon, will no doubt end up with the ins and outs of the landing gear :smiling3:
I worked on Iron Maidens first 757. When Bruce Dickinson was a pilot for Asraeus they let him use one of their aircraft for his world tour.They have indeed got a 747 now. When they first got it someone drove a tow truck into it at Santiago Airport!.IMG_3295.PNG
 

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He used to do charters for football teams apparently and one of the urban myths was he flew Glasgow Rangers to a European match and has the distinction of "captaining" the team.
 

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lol - must have been the same dude that bolted that engine under the wing on the B52 tha lost an engine the other week.
 

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Nice one rick , its a mighty impressive aircraft , are you planning on making the Revell a350 , i know its the shorter 900 version but you will have a good idea of how it builds now youve part made the full size aircraft!!

Tony,
Zvezda have fooled a kit for the A350-1000 so no need for butchering a Revell kit now. I’ve had my eye on this kit for a while but never got round to adding it to the stash. Not sure I will now given world events.
 
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