Good videos on
www.airbusmilitary.com showing taxi tests getting faster & faster, before first flight set for Friday 11th December: worth watching, if only for the sound of the engines ...
Scotteo: A pig it ain't, friend, but a blurdy good airborne cart-horse in the making!
Could call it "Percheron" - " very willing worker":
or "Clydesdale" - "the Gentle Giant":
or "Suffolk" - "easy temperament, willing worker, superb endurance" (character refs from Shire Horse breeders).
Roman and Greek gods' names for heavy lifters seem to have been bagged by rockets, but this could be a new way to designate an aerial work-horse, "Pegasus" being one of those thin-legged sprinty things under the wings ...
