Boeing has squandered a big lead over the A350XWB family with the 787. As Airbus starts production, there are many challenges ahead if they want to keep that gap narrowed.
While Airbus continues to affirm a mid-2013 service entry for the first A350-900 to Qatar Airways, the program is still battling on two major fronts. Weight and the centre wing box area.
Those two issues, either together or in singularity are big hurdles, indeed they are challenging areas where development headaches either get worse or get better. The other key factors driving the pace of the A350XWB development are two-fold. First is the near-exhaustion of.....
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