Spirit Creates A350XWB Longest Fuselage Panel

By Max Kingsley-Jones kingsley.jones@aviationweek.com
LONDON

Airbus’s US A350XWB production partner Spirit AeroSystems has cured a carbonfibre panel that will make up the longest section of the new twinjet’s composite fuselage.

Spirit is responsible for the production of the A350 centre-fuselage upper and forward-lower shells, which it produces at its plant in Kinston, North Carolina. These are then ...

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