Areopagus From United States, joined Sep 2001, 1265 posts, RR: 1 Reply 4, posted (2 years 2 months 1 week 2 days ago) and read 18926 times:
Note the difference around the nose and cockpit area. It looks like a bigger plane now. And the rear fuselage has got the sudden taper of the 777 and 787, which many have criticized for looks.
Mptpa From United States, joined Feb 2006, 418 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (2 years 2 months 1 week 2 days ago) and read 18857 times:
Looks like a B787 w/o the engine chevons. What do you want to bet that the cockpit windows will look more like A330 in 1 year? and the wingtips will look different too...
Cloudyapple From Hong Kong SAR, PRC, joined Jul 2005, 1531 posts, RR: 3 Reply 7, posted (2 years 2 months 1 week 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 18531 times:
Quoting Airways45 (Reply 3): Are you suggesting that your 'old' photo was used since the A350 WXB was launched?
That was true. Singapore Airlines had a picture of the old A350 in their press release when they announced the order. It is still there (Aug 5).
FlyDreamliner From United States, joined Jan 2006, 2223 posts, RR: 11 Reply 9, posted (2 years 2 months 1 week 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 18165 times:
Gearup From Canada, joined Dec 2000, 573 posts, RR: 1 Reply 11, posted (2 years 2 months 1 week 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 16184 times:
Love the nose, hope they keep it on production aircraft. It's tempting to think that one aircraft is a copy of another however I think that after so many years of research into aerodynamics and the optimisation of wings/airframes/control surfaces coupled with FBW you sorta end up with very similar shapes. It makes it difficult to indentify a new design as typically Boeing, or Airbus. BTW, I assume both the 787 and A350 will be FBW, does anyone think the designs would be radically different if they used traditional controls.
MotorHussy From New Zealand, joined Mar 2000, 2021 posts, RR: 7 Reply 13, posted (2 years 2 months 1 week 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 16076 times:
Quoting FlyDreamliner (Reply 9): Quoting FLYYUL (Reply 2):Looks like a 787!
Are you sure that isn't a 787-10 in the picture....Boeing, quick take notes.
BlueSky1976 From Poland, joined Jul 2004, 1049 posts, RR: 4 Reply 16, posted (2 years 2 months 1 week 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 14743 times:
Everybody who thinks it looks like 787 should take Aerodynamics 101. Believe it or not, Embraer started it and guess what? Y1 and NSR will both look alike, too (given that NSR is a clean-sheet design, not A320NG).
Besides - A350s nose is different. It doesn't taper down as low as 787s. If anything, it's closer to 777s nose than 787s as far as the shape goes. The pictures of the Farnborough model show it. Also, 787 has a nicer tail.
Jam747 From United States, joined Feb 2005, 550 posts, RR: 1 Reply 17, posted (2 years 2 months 1 week 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 14508 times:
I think the A350 looks great, hope it stays like that. The 787 original design I think looked better than the latest 787 design. These designs reminds me of car concepts. The concepts often look better than the production model.
A388 From Netherlands Antilles, joined May 2001, 5019 posts, RR: 8 Reply 18, posted (2 years 2 months 1 week 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 14476 times:
Quoting Airbazar (Reply 15): Correction: It's an European copy of a Japanese 787
Haha, that's a good one. I also think the A350XWB looks very similar to the 787. And yes, Embraer started designing with this nose type with their ERJ-170/190 introduction.
Quoting Gearup (Reply 11): Love the nose, hope they keep it on production aircraft. It's tempting to think that one aircraft is a copy of another however I think that after so many years of research into aerodynamics and the optimisation of wings/airframes/control surfaces coupled with FBW you sorta end up with very similar shapes. It makes it difficult to indentify a new design as typically Boeing, or Airbus.
Aircellist From Canada, joined Oct 2004, 450 posts, RR: 2 Reply 19, posted (2 years 2 months 1 week 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 14351 times:
From those computer drawings, I get the feeling that the fuselage will be au double-elliptical shape... With, maybe, the base of the former, typical Airbus shape, with a heigtened and widened crown.
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KSUpilot From United States, joined Jul 2006, 656 posts, RR: 2 Reply 20, posted (2 years 2 months 1 week 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 14115 times:
Quoting Jam747 (Reply 17): The 787 original design I think looked better than the latest 787 design. These designs reminds me of car concepts. The concepts often look better than the production model.
I agree. I have two posters up in my room, one the current 787 and the other a two page ad from FI of the old 787 (back when it was still the 7E7) I really like both designs, though the old nose did make it easy to ID. I just didn't like the windows...they looked stretched out.
I guess when you are designing two aircraft in the same class they are going to look alike. The only reason the 747 and A380 differ is because well, they are different in terms of the upperdeck. But just do a google search for MD-12 (a full upperdeck, like A380) and it looks very much like the A380. I like the look of the new noses. It looks even better on small aircraft like the E-170 and E-195.
BillReid From Netherlands, joined Jun 2006, 495 posts, RR: 0 Reply 22, posted (2 years 2 months 1 week 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 13431 times:
Lets have a drawing contest????
I think this looks like the Boeing aircraft that didn't make it to production, the mach .98 aircraft.
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