{"id":396817,"date":"2026-03-31T00:11:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T14:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/airbus-a350f-starts-ground-testing\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T00:11:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T14:11:26","slug":"180-liters-of-water-the-unusual-test-powering-the-new-airbus-a350f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=396817","title":{"rendered":"180 Liters Of Water: The Unusual Test Powering The New Airbus A350F"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The entry into service of the<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"739541\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/a350-freighter\/\"  >Airbus A350F<\/a><\/span> has taken another step towards becoming a reality, with the European planemaker announcing earlier today that its new freighter had officially begun its ground testing procedures. These tests, Airbus explains, are a huge challenge for the manufacturer, as well as being evidence of, as the firm puts it, &#8220;<em>the complexity of bringing a new aircraft variant to market<\/em>.&#8221; They are done during final assembly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another key milestone for the forthcoming widebody freighter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[426,430,11253,396],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus","category-airbus-a350","category-airbus-a350f","category-aircraft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=396817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396818,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396817\/revisions\/396818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=396817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=396817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}