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Airbus Military: first A400M wings of the airplane for RAF leave for final assembly line

Madrid, Spain - The aircraft is due to be delivered in September 2014

The wings for the first Airbus Military A400M Atlas new generation airlifter for the Royal Air Force have left the Airbus plant in Filton, UK where they are made, bound for the final assembly line at Seville, Spain. The picture shows one of the wings being loaded onto the Airbus roll-on-roll-off ferry at Royal Portbury Docks. The aircraft, the first of 22 ordered by the United Kingdom, is due...

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Rome, Italy, 08/29/2013 13:26
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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