A400 getting into the wild blue yonder
Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 6:27 amNext week sometime by the looks of things...
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Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 6:27 amRe: A400 getting into the wild blue yonder
Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 7:07 amGood. The sooner the better. The quicker it gets delivered the sooner people will stop babbling on about buying more C-130s.
Re: A400 getting into the wild blue yonder
Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 3:12 pmGood 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
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
Re: A400 getting into the wild blue yonder
Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 3:22 pmGood 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
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
.mic
Re: A400 getting into the wild blue yonder
Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 4:40 pmI 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.
Re: A400 getting into the wild blue yonder
Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 6:36 pmDon'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!