I have read on the official website of Airbus (an EADS company) that the new Airbus A350 XWB is expected to perform its 1st flight only in a year... The parts of the aircraft are at the pre-final assemly line already but it doesn't take only 1 month to join and to test them - but a whole year...
This is major... Because the Airbus A350 XWB is the competitor of the Boeing 777 and 787 - and of the Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental, of course... In the following year The Boeing Company has got a fair chance to collect a little more orders for its iconic, legendary and, of course, state-of-the-art airliner Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental... After the 1st flight of the new Airbus A350 XWB many flight tests will have to be conducted so it will take probably even 2 years until 1st delivery of the Airbus A350 XWB...
In these 2 years many traditional customers of the Jumbo Jet could return to the most popular large airplane of history and many orders could appear for the renewal of strategic Jumbo Jet fleets... If orders still fail then The Boeing Company will have to see in that time has passed by over the concept of the 747 Family...
Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team
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