A350 at Kemble

[jimKRFC]

Driving back home this evening I went by Kemble and there was an A350 parked up there. I was wondering why would it be there? What do they do there?

[Eric Mc]

Scrap airliners,

[jimKRFC]

So would the new A350 xwb be there? Surely they'd not be scrapping one already?

[paulrussell]

It was there for test flights according to the local paper http://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/cotswolds/... It was the first link when I googled Airbus A350.

[onyx39]

A350 to Kemble Wed 9th April
by full360 on Wed 09 Apr 2014, 5:23 pm

F-WZGG A350-900 was a recent Kemble arrival, circa 17:30.

Should night stop, one aircraft movement that seemingly everyone new about.

In case there are any spotters on here.

(Not that I would expect them to admit it!)

[Jim Campbell]

Short field landings evidently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqSTVWw7twU&fe...

[nick heppinstall]

Impressive !

[richie slow]

Jim Campbell said:

Short field landings evidently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqSTVWw7twU&fe...

Twelve seconds from touchdown it was at a complete stop

[fatboy69]

Hard on the brakes or what? Well impressed with that!

[onyx39]

Pilot had to scrape himself off the windscreen!

[Mojocvh]

I guess they were testing the heat sink effect on the brakes to see if the fusible plugs would blow thus the wait. Yes I was shouting "brakes off" at the screen LOL [old liney]

Edit, nose wheel down @00:29 after a wee bit of both bounce and cross wind [slight but noticeable] correction to full stop @00:40.

Not quite as good as this though [end] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0UhIwuDzW0

Edited by Mojocvh on Saturday 12th April 21:24

[CelicaGT]

Mojocvh said:

I guess they were testing the heat sink effect on the brakes to see if the fusible plugs would blow thus the wait. Yes I was shouting "brakes off" at the screen LOL [old liney]

Edit, nose wheel down @00:29 after a wee bit of both bounce and cross wind [slight but noticeable] correction to full stop @00:40.

Not quite as good as this though [end] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0UhIwuDzW0

Edited by Mojocvh on Saturday 12th April 21:24

The A350 vid was impressive, but the Tornado, WOW!

Reminds me of this classic vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAVDOBWtBuU

[Mojocvh]

CelicaGT said:

Mojocvh said:

I guess they were testing the heat sink effect on the brakes to see if the fusible plugs would blow thus the wait. Yes I was shouting "brakes off" at the screen LOL [old liney]

Edit, nose wheel down @00:29 after a wee bit of both bounce and cross wind [slight but noticeable] correction to full stop @00:40.

Not quite as good as this though [end] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0UhIwuDzW0

Edited by Mojocvh on Saturday 12th April 21:24

The A350 vid was impressive, but the Tornado, WOW!

Reminds me of this classic vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAVDOBWtBuU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4_CpSFIfwU

0:22 in...

[CelicaGT]

Mojocvh said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4_CpSFIfwU

0:22 in...

There's some fantastic footage there. I clicked it to watch that part and ended up watching the whole thing!