Airbus has delivered the world’s first A350-1000 widebody airliner to launch customer Qatar Airways during a formal aircraft handover ce...
Airbus has delivered the world’s first A350-1000 widebody airliner to launch customer Qatar Airways during a formal aircraft handover ceremony at Airbus headquarters in Toulouse, France.
Qatar Airways is the world’s largest A350 XWB family customer with 76 aircraft on order, 20 in fleet (A350-900) and the largest A350-1000 customer.
The aircraft is the first of 37 A350-1000s ordered by the carrier and is the first ever Airbus aircraft fitted with the revolutionary new Qsuite seats, offering the first ever double bed in Business class.
The A350-1000 is Airbus’ latest and largest widebody in the twin-aisle category. With a 7-metre longer fuselage, the A350-1000 space for premium cabin products is 40% larger than its smaller sibling the A350-900.
Press conference for #QatarAirways' @Airbus A350-1000. #FirstIn1000 #QatarA350 https://t.co/OOuQh76EHL— Qatar Airways (@qatarairways) February 20, 2018
In Qatar Airways configuration the A350-1000 offers 44 additional seats. It is a truly long-range aircraft with a range of 8,000nm (14,800 km) at entry into service.
The A350-1000 features a modified wing trailing-edge, new six-wheel main landing gears and more powerful Rolls-Royce Trent XWB-97 engines.
As with the A350-900, the A350-1000 brings together the very latest in aerodynamics, design and advanced technologies for a 25 per cent step change in operating cost compared to previous generation competitor aircraft.
Powering the A350-1000 is the two 97000 lb thrust each Rolls Royce Trent XWB-97 turbofans, the most powerful engine to power an Airbus aircraft.
Trent XWB-97 – incredible engineering by numbers:
- It sucks in up to 1.3 tonnes of air, the equivalent of a squash court, every second at take-off.
- The force on a fan blade at take-off is equivalent to a load of almost 90 tons, the same as nine London buses hanging off each blade.
- High pressure turbine blades inside the engine rotate at 12,500 rpm, with their tips reaching 1,200mph – twice the speed of sound.
- At take off each of the engine’s 68 high pressure turbine blades generates around 900 horsepower per blade – the equivalent to that of a Formula One racing car.
- At full power, air leaves the nozzle at the back of the engine travelling at almost 1000 mph.
