Airbus A 400
 

Kay, I have been following this birds development for quite some time. Plagued with problems mostly because every country involved has it's own needs and the bird was to be a egglaying wool milk pig. But seeing this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdLq8...feature=relmfu

.....dang! I want!

uhmmm I never got too impressed with the crazy stunts of military demonstrators, especially for cargo planes. Yes, it looks spectacular, but it's just a matter of loads of thrust and no payload. I doubt they'd be able to do that with 40 tons of payload in the back.

Having said this, the C-27 is faaar better :mrgreen:

Indeed no news here, but unloaded or not, looks+flying maneuvers=instant fav.

And in regards to the C-27,well...uhm....I suppose it's nice. I heared the Afghan Air Force is going to get some ; )

Wow!!!! And yet, if you had the A400 doing that in a sim everyone would be screaming "OVER-MODELLED!!!!!". LOL

I have painted few parts of this plane. IRL of course :)

Nice to hear some ppl like this aircraft.. it does look pretty good!

Well u shd hear wht the pilot (or the FBW ?) is doing on the eng ctrls each time the nose might hve a tendency to slip offset such with some bank angle.

Frankly until now I won't envy the allied pilots that woud hve to land that bird at night in Kandahar with one eng shut off ;)

Looks impressive.. :)
In fact I'd not like to be sitting in the back of that bird while it was performing what I've just seen.. lol!
It was bad enough being in a C-130 when the pilot was flinging the thing around the welsh valleys under radar.

Then its somehow your Baby too :)

When I was in the Army the same happend with me in a CH53 .
The breakfast I have eaten was forced to leave my stomach again .
Our duty after landing was to occupy a bridge and the area around , but without me :D