Excessive grinding” during maintenance led to a metal pin to crack and eventually break causing the left landing gear to ...

Airbus Military's all-new A400M four-engine turboprop military ... and tested lowering and raising of the landing gear and high-lift devices at altitude. In the four weeks leading up to the ...

Messier-Dowty has inaugurated the 1,200-sq.-meter (12,912-sq.-ft.) landing gear system test center for the A400M to evaluate the airlifter’s key subsystem performance during the development program.

A Delta Air Lines Boeing 717 landed on its belly up after a crack in a part of the supports for the nose landing gear kept it ...

The Airbus A400M is known for its agility ... "I Was Inconsolable" Cause of failed Alaska Airlines landing gear that sent passengers screaming revealed See standing ovation for Harvard president ...

Flightglobal.com has obtained an image of the first Airbus Military A400M flight-test aircraft resting on its own landing gear at the final assembly line near Seville, Spain. The transport is ...

The A400M's appearance screams that this is not your typical Airbus. The high wing, four Europrop International TP400-D6 turboprop engines and fuselage-mounted main landing gear pontoons all say ...

The A400M cruises 37,000 feet above the ground ... Thanks to shock absorbing landing gear, it can touch down on unpaved airstrips, a key feature for use in emergency and military situations.

The A400M is equipped with turboprop engines for enhanced foreign object damage protection and a 12-wheel main landing gear for improved weight distribution. To date, more than 130 A400Ms have ...

The A400M Atlas is a masterclass in design ... The plane has a 12-wheel landing gear and low-pressure tires to allow operations on unprepared runways as short as 2,500 feet, including grass ...

Picture: Thomasz Dunn A total of 174 A400M planes have since been ordered by the eight nations, which are seeking to replace their ageing Hercules fleets. The plane’s 12-wheel landing gear ...

Landing gear comes from Messier-Dowty ... and now Europe is taking them on. So, will the A400M sell? "In the first Gulf War it would have been extremely useful, and certainly today in Afghanistan ...