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Thursday, December 13, 2012

Airbus A400M May Reach IOC in Early 2013

After 300+ hours and over 50 sorties in the "ilities" phase of testing (reliability, supportability, deployability, maintainability, etc) it looks as though the Grizzly has gotten over its growing pains in the area of propulsion.  Counter-rotating props on both wings?  Interesting.

http://www.shephardmedia.com/news/mil-log/a400m-completes-fr-flight-test-phase/

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