Grizzly 2 takes off in Latin America…
The European transport aircraft, the Airbus A400M is currently touring Latin America. This is his first outing on this continent. And also the opportunity for tests at high altitude. Grizzly 2 - one of five aircraft built by Airbus military - first landed in Santiago de Chile on March 23. Piloted by Ignacio “Nacho” Lombo, it then headed for Cochabamba in Bolivia, an airport located at 2550 meters.
The 1000th flight hour
The time to return to the FIDAE Airshow in Santiago, made it possible to reach an important milestone, that of the 1000th hour of flight. After the Lima stage in Peru, the destination of La Paz in Bolivia was an interesting stopover, at more than 3.960 m.
Nacho Lombo knows the terrain a little. It was he who landed at the controls of an Airbus A380 for the first time in 2008.
The second series in assembly, a device delivered to France in 2013
The second series of A400Ms began to be assembled on the Airbus Military assembly line in Seville (Spain). The integration of the wings on the MSN8 model has already started in February, specified the industrialist. The rest of the other components of the second A400M intended for delivery to the French Air Force arrived in Seville in mid-March. Elements manufactured in three countries: from Saint Nazaire (France) for the nose of the aircraft, from Bremen (Germany) for the fuselage, from Stade (also in Germany) for the vertical fin, from the Tablada site (Seville) for the horizontal fin. This device should be delivered next year (2013) to France.
