The J floor ended up as Dash4a after Lockheed threw out Skydel as un- American. The movers then insisted on Dash 4 as everone else in the world had it and it was 'modern' - (it isn't, its as old as Skydel and not half as flexible) when what they really should have had was the ECHS flip up roller underfloor winch et al. Dash 4a is dangerous I can point you in the direction of accident reports where the floor design led to the loss of the aircarft and crew. Now the A400M on the otherhand is being ruined by Airbus without any assistance from anyone else - even though the users have tried to replicate the Beverley/Noratlas/C119 (it is a multinational project after all). Airbus are great at civil freighters and this is what they are making the A400M into - a two crew freighter and neither of them is a loadie.
