A400M in the air right now

[Slotback]

Lift off at about 10:16AM.

They will be streaming the landing live soon... not sure when..:


http://www.airbus.com/en/A400M/

[Mitch.]

Just posted this

Relatively quiet aircraft, not surprising with 32 blades. In my opinion, a nice looking bird. Fingers crossed the landing is a successful one.

[Ivan]

If they had decided to take the Antonov instead of making a copy of it, they would be flying these out of Kabul alrady...

[C]

If they had decided to take the Antonov instead of making a copy of it, they would be flying these out of Kabul alrady...

Or still pushing through the airworthiness and military releases to services compliant to most western air forces...