Aircraft
Second A350 XWB Completes First Flight
Airbus A350 MSN 3 takes off from Toulouse-Blagnac Airport for its first test flight. (Photo: Airbus)
Airbus A350 MSN 3 takes off from Toulouse-Blagnac Airport for its first test flight. (Photo: Airbus)

The second flying prototype of the Airbus A350 XWB took to the air for the first time Monday morning and landed at Toulouse-Blagnac Airport in France shortly after 2:30 p.m. local time. Airbus test pilots Frank Chapman and Thierry Bourges flew A350 XWB test aircraft MSN 3 for some five hours, while flight-test engineers monitored the progress of the flight profile.