A400m

[BEagle]

Airbus Deutschland GmbH, that's who!

Maybe I should have said "I've been asked to trawl for an experienced tactical fixed wing ALM who might be available to work on the A400M programme by Hamburg..."

[Trumpet_trousers]

Beags.....

....Plse check yr PMs

[BEagle]

T-t, I have but there's nothing there from your good self. Please retransmit!

A400M should fly in 2008 from Seville, by the way.

[BEagle]

And now it seems that Seth Efrika is committed to 8-14 A400Ms in exchange for work share and technological assistance...and a few Rand, of course!

[Solid Rust Twotter]

Beags

Have to sit tight and hope the rand doesn't crash. ....... unless the frogs take boerewors. The SAAF is slowly being degraded by the loss of qualified aircrew as well so not sure if there'll be anyone to fly the things. Probably have to get the crew of Thabos new BBJ to do a bit of moonlighting.

[BEagle]

I was going to say "You can teach monkeys to fly an Airbus" after seeing that A320 'pilot' in 'Bomber Pilot' whose stick-and-rudder skills were considered inadequate to fly a traditional aeroplane - but perhaps in the context of SA that might be incorrectly construed as a racist slur.

OK then - you do not need the world's best stick and rudder skills to fly an Airbus satisfactorily. And the FCOM spells out what to do in very basic "Monk.... Sorry, "Blokey see, blokey do" manner.

[Always_broken_in_wilts]

Beags,

Thought we had "Mr, no longer Master "W", an extremely experianced Tac/AT ALM as part of the design team.

A very cool calm and collected individual who, despite my best efforts I never managed to extract the same reaction as I get from the "petulant one"

What has happened to him? Heard he had a heart scare but was not aware that that was endex for the poor fellow.

all spelling mistakes are "df" alcohol induced

[Trumpet_trousers]

MS Speal Chocker.....

..ABIW...mate, I'd ask for your money back....it's clearly not working, is it?

experianced

OCED refers.... @rse

[Good Mickey]

ABIW,

you're right Airbus Military already employ an experienced Tac AT ALM who has an impressive track record. He did have a heart attack recently but has now made a full recovery and is once again fully engaged in the design of the freight bay and associated systems.

I'm surprised that Beagle didn't give you the information though as he seems to think that he knows eveything else about this project!!

GM

[BEagle]

Personally I prefer not to comment about specific individuals on an open site, AbiW.

Anyway, my search for a suitably-qualified expert to join the A400M programme seems to have borne fruit....

[MrBernoulli]

Solid Rust Twotter says above:

"The SAAF is slowly being degraded by the loss of qualified aircrew as well so not sure if there'll be anyone to fly the things."

Hmmm ..... now where did I see an identical thing happen ..... in a similar part of that continent ...... ah yes ..... Zimbabwe!

[Always_broken_in_wilts]

GM,

Thanks for the info, we had heard that Al had suffered with ticker prob's but glad to see he has made a full recovery and grate to seem him back at his "nice little earner"

Which is pretty good news as I am not sure Beag's "candidate" would have had the mental stamina to deal with our "Auf Deutch" partners as stamping ones feet is not seen as a positive trait

all spelling mistakes are "df" alcohol induced

[Trumpet_trousers]

First metal cut?

Here we go......

http://airbusmilitary.com/pressrelease.html#262005

....that's some milling operation!