Air France-KLM is substituting two A350 passenger jets for freighter aircraft on its Airbus orderbook because it can get the passenger planes sooner.

The A350 uses this material on its wings, the center wing box and keel beam, tail cone, skin panel, frames, and doors. For other parts, such as door surroundings, landing gear, engine pylons ...

These oversize missions typically require a special aircraft design big and flexible enough to accommodate the awkward cargo, with the nose-loading door on ... for its Airbus A350 airliner.

Extremely large hatch The Airbus A350F is based on the A350-1000 and has a maximum take-off weight of 319 tons. To optimize ...

Sections 16/18 of the A350’s freight variant, including the emplacement of the large cargo door, were built in Augsburg, Germany and handed over to Airbus’... Thierry Dubois has specialized in ...