Wednesday, 9 December 2009

Airbus confirms A400M first flight this Friday

Almost there!  I've started holding my breath in eager anticipation.  Never in the field of aircraft development has so little taken so long.  As I have blogged before a hi-lo mix of C-17s and C-130Js would be better and cheaper. This is a purely political aircraft and it's now almost too late to save the taxpayer humungous sums of money.  Do you realise that if this aircraft didn't exist we could buy 67,983 IED-proof armoured vehicles and 6 million sets of body armour and put them to good use saving lives?  (Actually I made up the numbers for effect but I'm sure you get the point).

Airbus confirms A400M first flight this Friday: "Airbus Military has confirmed that its A400M transport is scheduled to make its first flight on 11 December, with aircraft MSN001 due to lift off from San..."


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