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It flies! Airbus' hulking A400M has maiden flight
Product Design and Development ^
| Friday, December 11, 2009
| EMMA VANDORE
Posted on 12/11/2009 11:12:33 AM PST by null and void
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Designed by a multinational multiethnic committee and built to milspec.
What could possibly go wrong?
Comment #2 Removed by Moderator
To: null and void
Pound for pound, and specific to its mission, just about the finest airplane ever designed and built.
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posted on
12/11/2009 11:15:22 AM PST
by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: null and void
It looks like an old C141 with propellers.
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posted on
12/11/2009 11:17:13 AM PST
by
JBR34
To: Rummyfan
So far eleven 1.5 hour trips in and out of theater. Finally learned how to grab a nap on one of those hogs. (Don't sleep for the previous 36 hours.)
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posted on
12/11/2009 11:17:39 AM PST
by
gov_bean_ counter
(Sarah Palin - For such a time as this)
To: null and void
How big is its carbon footprint?....................
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posted on
12/11/2009 11:17:55 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Al Gore is the Bernie Madoff of environmentalism. He belongs in jail. - Unknown Blogger)
To: null and void
Looks like an old Soviet knock-off.
To: Red Badger
It flies. Now that is a scary thought; people would be much safer if it didn’t.
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posted on
12/11/2009 11:21:39 AM PST
by
inpajamas
(http://outskirtspress.com/ONE)
To: JBR34
It looks like an old C141 with propellers. Except shorter, and fatter.
Now this girl deserves some notice:
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posted on
12/11/2009 11:23:16 AM PST
by
rjsimmon
(1-20-2013 The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
To: null and void
Ann Coulter said it best: “Diversity is an OBSTACLE to OVERCOME, not a goal to be achieved”
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posted on
12/11/2009 11:23:20 AM PST
by
Mr. K
(Deathly afraid my typos become a freeper catchphrase...I'm series!)
To: Rummyfan
Would make a helluva flying camper wouldn’t it! Wonder how much they will go for on the surplus market.
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posted on
12/11/2009 11:23:27 AM PST
by
Boiling point
(Beck / Palin 2012)
To: null and void
To: JBR34
Yes! Exactly.
I was thinking Soviet, but didn't the USSR make a knock-off of a Starlifter?.
Looked kinda like this, minus the dish:
To: Rummyfan
I have more than 1000 hours in the 4-fan trash can from A model to H.
To: Rummyfan
The greatest hauler in history. My beloved Hercules.
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posted on
12/11/2009 11:26:40 AM PST
by
pfflier
To: JBR34; rjsimmon
Looks more like a C-5 Galaxy with propellers to me.
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posted on
12/11/2009 11:29:34 AM PST
by
BubbaBasher
("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
To: FormerRep
In the cockpit or back with the “stuff”?
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posted on
12/11/2009 11:30:31 AM PST
by
gov_bean_ counter
(Sarah Palin - For such a time as this)
To: null and void
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posted on
12/11/2009 11:31:21 AM PST
by
Paladin2
To: Paladin2
Tough getting a window seat too.
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posted on
12/11/2009 11:35:00 AM PST
by
gov_bean_ counter
(Sarah Palin - For such a time as this)
To: null and void
When I see an A400M do what the C-130 gunship can do, then It will be worth something.
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posted on
12/11/2009 11:35:36 AM PST
by
cranked
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