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Airbus A350 completes maiden flight

2013-06-14 2,373 Dailymotion

ROUGH CUT ONLY - NO REPORTER NARRATION<br/> <br />Europe's newest passenger plane, the Airbus A350, landed successfully after completing a four-hour maiden test flight on Friday (June 14).<br/> <br />The next-generation passenger plane touched down back in Toulouse in southwestern France at 1405 local time (1205 GMT), after a fly-past over the planemaker's Toulouse production site.<br/> <br />The flight, with two former fighter pilots at the controls, lasted about four hours and capped eight years of development estimated to have cost $15 billion.<br/> <br />French co-pilot Guy Magrin took the controls for the take-off at 10:01 local time (0801 GMT), giving the plane air under its wings for the first time in front of a podium of airline chiefs who have ordered 613 aircraft.<br/> <br />It was watched by more than 10,000 Airbus staff and spectators.<br/> <br />The long-awaited flight was a milestone for Airbus as it battles against Boeing's 787 Dreamliner for sales of a generation of lightweight jets made from carbon

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