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Offline Hazzer

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Re: First Airbus A400 Roll Out
« Reply #15 on: June 28, 2008, 01:50:53 PM »

 My bad,they are counter rotating,you can see it clearly in the picture.
 
 Those Europrop TP 400 engines look super efficient.
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Offline croduh

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Re: First Airbus A400 Roll Out
« Reply #16 on: June 28, 2008, 01:53:06 PM »
Looks pretty to me.Mean too with the refueling pipe and props :t
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Offline john9001

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Re: First Airbus A400 Roll Out
« Reply #17 on: June 28, 2008, 02:49:56 PM »
they are not counter rotating, that one prop was installed backwards.
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Offline Captfish

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Re: First Airbus A400 Roll Out
« Reply #18 on: June 28, 2008, 02:59:05 PM »
they are not "contra-rotating"
they are "counter-rotating"

two completely diffrent meanings look it up.

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Re: First Airbus A400 Roll Out
« Reply #19 on: June 28, 2008, 03:06:43 PM »
Those props have Jazz hands.
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Offline Mackay

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Re: First Airbus A400 Roll Out
« Reply #20 on: June 28, 2008, 03:10:20 PM »
Looks to be about the size of a C-141A, and since it's prop driven it'll be slower than a C-141 was. It'll have better short/rough field capability though over a C-141 but probably not as good as the C-130. The counter rotating props are kinda messed up since you have to supply 2 different drive trains for one aircraft. Would have been easier to make them all turn the same direction, but there is probably a performance reason for them doing it this way.

All in all a decent medium transport that will find a niche in the air transport community.
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Re: First Airbus A400 Roll Out
« Reply #21 on: June 28, 2008, 03:43:48 PM »
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Re: First Airbus A400 Roll Out
« Reply #22 on: June 28, 2008, 03:52:15 PM »
Seems an impressive aircraft from the performance on the web site.

It struck me immediately that it just looks like a C-17 with props.


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Re: First Airbus A400 Roll Out
« Reply #23 on: June 28, 2008, 04:11:40 PM »
I'm sure borda will be here shortly to tell us how this design came from Russia..

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Re: First Airbus A400 Roll Out
« Reply #24 on: June 28, 2008, 04:13:49 PM »
Water was invented in Russia.
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Offline Fishu

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Re: First Airbus A400 Roll Out
« Reply #25 on: June 28, 2008, 04:13:53 PM »
The one thing that I don't like in the outlooks of any Airbus model is the nose section.
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Offline Fishu

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Re: First Airbus A400 Roll Out
« Reply #26 on: June 28, 2008, 04:14:57 PM »
Quote from: Furball on June 28, 2008, 03:52:15 PM
It struck me immediately that it just looks like a C-17 with props.

Yeah, we share the same laws of physics over here in Europe too.
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Offline RAIDER14

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Re: First Airbus A400 Roll Out
« Reply #27 on: June 28, 2008, 04:19:02 PM »
The C130 was used as the testbed for the engine


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Offline Rino

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Re: First Airbus A400 Roll Out
« Reply #28 on: June 28, 2008, 05:00:16 PM »
Quote from: Hazzer on June 28, 2008, 09:50:38 AM
State of the art Transport,it looks right I hope it's as successful as the civil Airbus projects.The wings are carbon fibre and made here in Britain. :aok
 
The props are not contra-rotating by the way.

     Looking at the flags displayed, I'd say Europe will support their homegrown
quite nicely.  I do think that England will be the only one to use it though...
the rest don't really need a deployable force anyway, well not one that would
need that kind of space.
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Re: First Airbus A400 Roll Out
« Reply #29 on: June 28, 2008, 05:24:21 PM »
Quote from: RAIDER14 on June 28, 2008, 04:19:02 PM
The C130 was used as the testbed for the engine

Wow, that puts the size of the engine into a perspective. It looks to be somewhat large engine.
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