Airbus A350 (!) could do Le Bourget 2013 Airshow fly-by...

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Mon May 20, 2013 2:08pm EDT

PARIS (Reuters) - Airbus (EAD.PA) could steal the Paris air show with a flyby of its newest passenger jet, the A350, as confidence grows over a maiden flight some four weeks away.

The timescales of its previous airliner launches suggest the European manufacturer could be ready to fly the aircraft in mid-June,
depending on weather and ground trials, giving pilots a narrow time window to test the plane's basic characteristics in flight before the June 17-23 air show.

However, the prospect of Airbus flaunting its newest jet from the air increased as photographs of an A350 logo painted on the plane's belly circulated on the Internet. Such belly markings are typically used for branding in air show flyby.

See http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/ ... 30520PARIS