The curious case of the changing XWB

The subject of the final look and feel of the A350 XWB has been the subject of extensive discussion, mostly of the unserious kind. Yet, after Flight revealed a different nose and window design for Airbus’s new long-range widebody two weeks ago, the windows appear to be right back to the original design in another ad running running on flightglobal.com.

What’s a nitpicking aircraft junky to make of all this?

Today:
A350nosenewad.jpgTwo weeks ago:

a350nose.jpg

With that being said, check out this video of how Airbus can deck out the XWB Prestige:

Video originally embedded here

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