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Finally in the air

The Airbus A400M has made its maiden flight maiden flight at 10L15 am (GMT +1) today in Seville, Spain.

It appears that they never retracted the gear (not surprising) , and I have no details of the flight plant, but here is some video and picture pr0n.

The most detailed report of the flight that I could find says that the flight lasted for 3h 45m, and that the aircraft reached 800 ft and a speed of 230 kts, below the original goal of 300 kt, but sufficient speed to imply that the gear was raised for some portion of the flight.

*See here for reference.

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