I see a Belfast is still operational. I wonder whether it could be the alternate engine test bed airframe?
The lack of information on engine progress is raising some justified questions on the validity of this whole program. Considering that first flight was promised for 2008 and the first crew training courses were slated to start next year it is getting beyond a joke. As I said before, it would be laughable, if our deployed forces were not on the end of a tenuous airbridge on which the A400M is supposed to be operating in a couple of years.
Is there a plan B?
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