It's great to read that A400M has been moved outside the FAL in Spain for ground testing before the arrival of flight-ready engines, and that an engine with fully-modified software will be runniing on the "Iron Bird" in Toulouse shortly (source Airbus Military via Flightglobal 22 Sep)).
Apart from the understandable political pressure on the teams to get flight testing under way well before the end of the year, it will be a big relief for them to be back, at last, to the pre-flight stage ...
"Ooo-blurdy-ray" and (nearly) "oof !!!" etc ...