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ahlfors From Canada, joined Oct 2000, 1321 posts, RR: 5
Posted (4 months 2 weeks 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 7646 times:

An A380 in Airbus colours has been on the tarmac at YFB for a couple days. Why is it here? More cold weather testing?

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Aesma From France, joined Nov 2009, 4932 posts, RR: 9
Reply 1, posted (4 months 2 weeks 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 7599 times:

Cold weather testing for sure, but of what ? An engine PIP ?

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ahlfors From Canada, joined Oct 2000, 1321 posts, RR: 5
Reply 2, posted (4 months 2 weeks 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 7585 times:

Well, it has three engines covered and one uncovered, so maybe.

petera380 From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 324 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (4 months 2 weeks 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 7460 times:

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Probably cold testing for the XWB engine?

Viscount724 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2006, 21676 posts, RR: 23
Reply 4, posted (4 months 2 weeks 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 7353 times:

Quoting petera380 (Reply 3):
Probably cold testing for the XWB engine?

This item from 2 months ago (when the A380 Trent XWB testbed visited East Midlands/EMA) quotes someone saying that it will "soon be going to Siberia for cold weather testing".
http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/To...s/story-17286012-detail/story.html

Maybe it wasn't cold enough in Siberia so they picked YFB instead, where the A380 itself did cold weather testing before it was certified. I recall at that time they said it wasn't quite as cold as they were hoping for.

It's currently -24C in YFB with a windchill around -40C. Average temperatures for today: low -32C, high -24C.
http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/city/pages/nu-21_metric_e.html

http://www.airbus.com/fileadmin/media_gallery/photogallery/big/800x600_1318919541_A350_XWB_Flying_test_bed_HG_TRENT_XWB.jpg

r2rho From Germany, joined Feb 2007, 2274 posts, RR: 1
Reply 5, posted (4 months 2 weeks 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 6788 times:

Quoting ahlfors (Reply 2):
Well, it has three engines covered and one uncovered, so maybe.

Well that answers it

Cold weather testing for the TrentXWB.
Airbus has been to YFB for cold weather campaigns before. The A330F has been there as well as the A380, not sure about the A400M. Seems like a popular place for cold weather testing at Airbus.

more interesting info:
http://videos.airbus.com/search/?q=cold+weather

YZFOO7F From Canada, joined May 2005, 157 posts, RR: 0
Reply 6, posted (4 months 2 weeks 5 days 12 hours ago) and read 5006 times:

They really should have brought it into YZF. We have had consistently cold days here for two months. The average has been -35°C.

Boeing was slated to bring the 787 here for a cold soak two weeks ago, but has obviously postponed with the grounding.

[Edited 2013-01-29 10:00:34]

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BoeingVista From Australia, joined Jan 2009, 1081 posts, RR: 2
Reply 7, posted (4 months 2 weeks 3 days 4 hours ago) and read 825 times:

Quoting r2rho (Reply 5):
Well that answers it Cold weather testing for the TrentXWB.

Yup..

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/...0/north-airbus-engine-testing.html

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