"Bob (not my real pseudonym)" wrote in message
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On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:57:45 +0100, "Andrew B"
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"DAN" wrote in message
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Thanks, Andrew !
great series.

The A-400M looks so weird. Sorta mutt.

Brothers pic's from RIAT at Fairford



Thanks DAN,

I have to agree with you about the A-400M.

I'm not used to seeing eight bladed props so it looks a little odd to
begin
with. Then those almost pod like housings for the undercarriage together
with six wheels per housing look a bit out of proportion as well. The
whole
probably works very well but it will take me a time to get used to it. I
certainly don't see it as a great beauty.

From what I've read of delays in the A400M program - time is one thing
they have in spades...

Delays seem to be quite the fashionable thing in the aircraft production
industry at the moment

--
Andrew B (Cheshire, England)

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."
(Lord Kelvin, president Royal Society, 1895.)