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Saturday, January 19, 2013

Europe’s A400M aircraft programme now reaching major milestones

A400M airlifter |Airbus Military’s troubled A400M airlifter programme is now progressing well, with the first production aircraft set to be delivered to the launch customer within a few months, Airbus group president and CEO Fabrice Brégier reported at the Airbus annual press conference on Thursday. “We were in deep crisis, [but] since 2009 we have worked very hard.”

“The A400M programme was progressing very well until mid-summer [2012],” he elucidated. “Then we had maturity problems with the engine.”

The aircraft is powered by four Europrop International (EPI) TP400-D6 turboprop engines, the most powerful turboprops ever developed outside of Russia.

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