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A400 getting into the wild blue yonder (Read 317 times)

Nov 28^th, 2009 at 6:27am

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Next week sometime by the looks of things...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8383212.stm

There are two types of aeroplane, Spitfires and everything else that wishes it was a Spitfire!

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Reply #1 - Nov 28^th, 2009 at 7:07am

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Good. The sooner the better. The quicker it gets delivered the sooner people will stop babbling on about buying more C-130s.

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Reply #2 - Nov 28^th, 2009 at 3:12pm

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Good afternoon all...

Don't know much about this aircraft, is it as large as a C5 Galaxy or a C17?

What is it going to replace and is it a Tactical Transport like the C130 or a heavy hauler?

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #3 - Nov 28^th, 2009 at 3:22pm

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Flying Trucker wrote on Nov 28^th, 2009 at 3:12pm:

Good afternoon all...

It's slightly smaller than a C17 and is intended as a Herc replacement (or alternative to C17)

I hope all goes well....a lot of jobs near me depend on this aircraft Roll Eyes

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Reply #4 - Nov 28^th, 2009 at 4:40pm

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I know the USAF was looking into buying some to replace the older C-130's but since they are so far behind, they had to get more C-130J's to make due.

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Reply #5 - Nov 28^th, 2009 at 6:36pm

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Flying Trucker wrote on Nov 28^th, 2009 at 3:12pm:

Don't know much about this aircraft, is it as large as a C5 Galaxy or a C17?

What is it going to replace and is it a Tactical Transport like the C130 or a heavy hauler?

As Mic says it's a sort of "in-betweeny", designed to fill a hole between the C-130 and C-17, which the US has chosen not to do as yet (as they can afford lots of C-17s!).

In short, it'll carry more and have a larger hold than the C-130, and be considerably cheaper than the C-17, so affordable in reasonable numbers for anyone other than the US (and their hundreds of C-17s!).

For the RAF, it's directly replacing the C-130K (essentially RAF C-130E/H). In an ideal world we'd have a couple of Sqns of C-17, but we could never realistically afford them!

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