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Aviation Week flies the A350

Here’s an interesting video from Aviation Week which shows their chief aircraft evaluation editor flying the left seat of the A350.

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

  1. What’s unique about the A350 for Airbus?
  2. What’s special about the wing on the A350?
  3. What’s significant about .85 Mach?
  4. How much thrust can each A350-900 engine produce?
  5. Describe the layout of the A350’s cockpit?
  6. Why did they use reduced thrust for takeoff?
  7. What’s the final verdict on the plane?

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Aviation Week Pilot Report: Airbus A350

Aviation Week chief aircraft evaluation editor Fred George flew left seat in Airbus’s new big twin, the A350, with Airbus chief test pilot Peter Chandler in the right seat and Christian Norden on the jump seat as safety pilot.

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Take care of my explosives

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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A flight landed at its destination as expected without any unusual occurrences. When the baggage handlers were unloading the baggage they found a suitcase with a note on the outside. It said, ‘take care of my explosives’. Security was alerted and the plane was moved to a remote area. The bomb disposal experts were called in to examine the suitcase. After 30 minutes examining the suitcase they discovered it had no explosives inside and it was safe. The plane was released and was able to perform the return flight, a little later than scheduled. Police are now investigating who put the note on the luggage.

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Take care of my explosives

Listen to this recording and try to write what your understand. You should try to write everything that is said.

You can listen as many times as you want.

Check below the recording for some of the difficult words and come back and check the full text from this recording tomorrow.

Suggested ICAO level: 4+

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Difficult words: baggage handler (n.), bomb disposal experts (n.)

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A320neo Leap 1-A engine flight answers

Here are the answers to last Friday’s video, enjoy!

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

  1. He hopes it’s the start of another 20 years of success together.
  2. They expected it to take four years and it took four years.
  3. He said there was ‘nothing to report’, meaning it went very well with no surprises.
  4. He would have been happy to stay up in the sky flying for longer with the plane, but, in his words, ‘we had to come down’.

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A320neo Leap 1-A engine flight

Here’s an interesting video from 19th May that shows the maiden flight of the A320neo with the Leap 1-A engine.

Try to answer the following questions about the video and come back on Monday for the answers.

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

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  1. What does Fabrice Bragger (Airbus CEO) hope for this CFM engine and Airbus?
  2. How long did Airbus expect it would take to get to this point in the project development? How long did it take in reality?
  3. How did Jean-Paul Ebanga rate the success of the maiden flight?
  4. How did Tuan Do feel about the flight?

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A320neo takes to the skies with LEAP- 1A engines

The first A320neo equipped with CFM International LEAP-1A engines completed its maiden flight on 19 May 2015, with the aircraft taking off and landing in Toulouse, France. This video clip includes comments and insights from Airbus and CFM International officials, as well as members of the flight crew.

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Where are the dogs?

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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An Airbus A321 was climbing out of its airport of origin when the crew heard an unusual noise. They weren’t sure where the noise was coming from but it sounded like barking dogs. They though it was a problem with a hydraulic system because this sometimes makes a similar sound to barking dogs when there is a problem, but there was no indication of a hydraulic problem this time. As a result, they decided to return to their airport of origin to allow ground personnel to investigate the problem. After they landed, they discovered that the noise was actually from two dogs in the cargo hold, whose containers hadn’t been properly secured. The containers were secured and the plane took off again.

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