A400M shocker
Surprise (text subscriber only)!
Aviation Week & Space TechnologyPlace your bets. I'm still wondering what Daniel Leblanc of the Globe and Mail and David Pugliese of the Ottawa Citizen are reading.
07/23/2007, page 19
EADS CEO Louis Gallois says delays with the TP400 turboprop engine that will power the Airbus A400M airlifter are likely to lead to a deferral of the first flight, which has been scheduled for late March 2008. Test problems already have delayed the initial flight of the engine on a C-130 testbed to the third or first quarter of this year (AW&ST June 11, p. 36). However, initial deliveries should still take place by late 2009, Gallois says.
posted by Mark, Ottawa at 11:55 a.m.
2 Comments:
So they are saying that the engine development is OFF the critical path for the program . . .. how else do announce a WBS component slip but CLAIM the overall program end dates are OK ?
So this must be the first airplane development program in history that has the engines OFF the Critical Path. Didn't know EADS/Airbus was so smart to figure out a cure for that nagging aviation problem.
Maybe that will be a good story for Daniel Leblanc & David Pugliese . . . how we made a big mistake by not buying a plane made by such a smart company and instead picked the terrible American C130 Jercules.
I'll look forward to reading it.
Or maybe they could get off their negative butts and interview the good folks at P&WC for the story of how they won the engine competition in the first place and then had their work stolen by the Euro politicians who decided to not practice free trade and gave the engine work to "better" European companies.
What goes around eh ??
Bets on what? How late she'll be before attaining IOC? Are we allowed to measure in decades?
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