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Airbus A.400 to fly Friday

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Airbus A.400 to fly Friday

Post by GOOSE » Wed Dec 09, 2009 1:55 pm

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 Pablo airport near Seville around 10am local time.

The manufacturer's flight plan was confirmed on 9 December in an invitation addressed by Airbus Military managing director Domingo Ureña.

The correspondence says the debut sortie will last "between one hour and three, depending on the progress of this very first test flight". Airbus last week outlined its intention to conduct a flight of about 3h, during which the aircraft will reach an altitude of around 15,000ft (4,570m) and a maximum speed of 300kt/M0.72.

FlightGlobal report here - http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/20 ... riday.html

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Re: Airbus A.400 to fly Friday

Post by Gary » Fri Dec 11, 2009 9:55 am

Its airborne :whistle: Should be landing around 12pm if the flightglobal info is correct log onto here http://www.airbus.com/en/A400M/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; for live coverage of the landing :)

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Re: Airbus A.400 to fly Friday

Post by Dunk » Fri Dec 11, 2009 10:33 am

Well i'll be!

Never thought it would fly for a long time yet.

About darn time too.

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Re: Airbus A.400 to fly Friday

Post by sjnovis » Fri Dec 11, 2009 10:49 am

Gary wrote:Its airborne :whistle: Should be landing around 12pm if the flightglobal info is correct log onto here http://www.airbus.com/en/A400M/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; for live coverage of the landing :)
A bit of an update.
The website is saying it will be showing live from 12:30 PM GMT + 1

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Re: Airbus A.400 to fly Friday

Post by Gary » Fri Dec 11, 2009 11:37 am

Live coverage has started again :) liking the line up of all the Airbus aircraft :cool:

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Re: Airbus A.400 to fly Friday

Post by sjnovis » Fri Dec 11, 2009 12:07 pm

Excelent - they've got some great weather there.

tee hee, I nice blonde lady just got her heel stuck in a drain cover.

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Re: Airbus A.400 to fly Friday

Post by Gary » Fri Dec 11, 2009 1:03 pm

Just landed. Still think its fugly but its growing one me :lol:

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Re: Airbus A.400 to fly Friday

Post by Bucky P » Fri Dec 11, 2009 1:03 pm

Just landed!

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Re: Airbus A.400 to fly Friday

Post by sjnovis » Fri Dec 11, 2009 1:07 pm

Blooming work got in the way, so missed it, I'll have to wait for the repeat.

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Re: Airbus A.400 to fly Friday

Post by WAP » Fri Dec 11, 2009 1:17 pm

its still live now (or is it a repeat?), Doesnt look anything like a C17 at all :whistle:
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Re: Airbus A.400 to fly Friday

Post by von_trippenhopf » Fri Dec 11, 2009 4:21 pm

Wasn't sure how to post the vid, so here's the link! :blush:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX-kIUYRyDk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: Airbus A.400 to fly Friday

Post by Flyingmonster » Fri Dec 11, 2009 10:28 pm

Ah at last!! Nice to see it in the air!! Lets hope everything stays on track now!! :thumb:
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Re: Airbus A.400 to fly Friday

Post by f-4 » Sat Dec 12, 2009 12:22 am

Fireman Sam wrote:Does anybody knows why he made the entire flight with the landing gear opened?
No 'he' didn't:

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Re: Airbus A.400 to fly Friday

Post by clio197 » Sat Dec 12, 2009 12:35 am

Some of our parts that we make at work are in the wings :thumb:

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Re: Airbus A.400 to fly Friday

Post by Chef_uk » Sat Dec 12, 2009 4:09 pm

That looks awesome :)

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Re: Airbus A.400 to fly Friday

Post by TonyO » Sat Dec 12, 2009 5:06 pm

Looked good from where I stood...

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Re: Airbus A.400 to fly Friday

Post by f-4 » Sat Dec 12, 2009 5:32 pm

TonyO wrote:Looked good from where I stood...
Lovely stuff, Mr O. Me jealous? I was first reserve... :(

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Re: Airbus A.400 to fly Friday

Post by GOOSE » Sat Dec 12, 2009 5:41 pm

Very nice Tony.

People really don't appreciate the size of this thing.

Anyone got a representative picture of this thing showing it's scale???

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Re: Airbus A.400 to fly Friday

Post by TonyO » Sat Dec 12, 2009 6:10 pm

f-4 wrote:
TonyO wrote:Looked good from where I stood...
Lovely stuff, Mr O. Me jealous? I was first reserve... :(
Pity, it would have been fun, but there just wasn't the room on the biz-jet, I suppose you could have sat on the sofa at the back!!!
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