It was 10:07 a.m. on Dec. 11, 2009, when Airbus Military’s new A400M MSN 001 aircraft lifted off sprightly from Seville airport in Spain for its maiden flight, its nose headed mightily in the ...

Airbus Defence and Space has completed certification testing of the A400 airlifter on a grass runway. The tests used the development aircraft MSN2, and took place over a period of three weeks at the ...