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Airbus Military completes A-400M plane full scale fatigue tests

Madrid, Spain - For EASA certification

Airbus Military has successfully completed the number of required simulated flight-cycles on a full scale test airframe to achieve civil type certification of the A-400M by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). The test programme is required to simulate flights at least one year ahead of the actual operations performed by the aircraft. The test specimen at Dresden, known as MSN5001, has undergone...

fra/pec - 1126574
Rome, Italy, 03/04/2011 15:34
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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