A400M Gears Up For Unprepared Runway Trials
By Robert Wall wall@aviationweek.com
FARNBOROUGH
Airbus Military in the next few days expects to commence trials to land the A400M airlifter on unprepared runways, in the first significant step to validate some of the transport’s military performance.
The first step is for the A400M, now christened the Grizzly, to land on a runway near Toulouse, France, with chalk pellets. Those are to show how stones would ricochet and ...
