Airbus is to follow the lead of the Boeing 787 and offer electronic self-darkening windows on the A350 XWB. The airframer's baseline XWB window offer has a mechanical shutter to keep out light and optional self-darkening electrochro-mic panes. A clip-on, clip-off oval-shaped bezel panel for each window enables Airbus and its customers to switch to self-darkening electrochromic panes. The bezel was originally created to enable rapid window changeovers in the event of a crack in the glass or other fault. "We will have electrically darkened windows [as an option]," says Robert Lange, Airbus's head of aircraft interiors marketing, customer affairs.
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