A surge in defense spending, partnerships in hydrogen propulsion and new combat aircraft agreements, many backed by ...

Airbus' project to convert the A400M into an aircraft carrier airplane Airbus tests in Spain a kit to convert the A400M into a firefighting plane Currently, there are already more than 130 A400Ms in ...

Comments made by a French Air & Space Force Colonel suggest the A400M transport could evolve into a “heavy combat aircraft.” ...

T he Lockheed C-130 Hercules has been "the" tactical transport aircraft of the United States Air Force and many of its allies ...

In this article, AeroTime casts its eye through the official Air Show preview list to pick out its highlights – which ...

The propeller system has been influenced by Airbus’s A400M military transport plane, “probably the most advanced propeller-powered product today”, he says. The propeller system has been ...

The Airbus A400M Atlas is a symbol of European high ... The counter-rotating propellers and complex gearboxes have posed maintenance challenges, reflecting the inherent tradeoffs of its ambitious ...

Earlier this year, on Jan. 13, Airbus Defence announced that a German A400M refueled a U.S. Navy ... testing the impact of the wake from its new propellers on the refueling hose and drogue-and ...

The world's militaries have a plethora of planes in use, and most of them have one to two engines. That's true of older fighter jets like the Mirage F1, and it's true of the newest F-35 Lightning ...

FARNBOROUGH–Airbus is exploring initiatives to reduce the operation cost of its Airbus A400M airlifter ... engines and propellers. “I think we [are] already reaching availability rates ...

The first-ever North American Airbus A400M Atlas demo took place over the ... with her elegant 8-bladed Ratier-Figeac scimitar-shaped propellers and her four unique sounding Europrop TP400-D6 ...

Germany continues to have problems with its A400M four-engine turboprop military transports Recently the German Air Force refused to accept the latest two A400Ms delivered This time the problem has to ...