{"id":278,"date":"2014-10-18T22:12:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T19:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=278"},"modified":"2014-10-18T22:23:15","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T19:23:15","slug":"first-german-air-force-a-400m-atlas-makes-its-maiden-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"First German Air Force A-400M Atlas makes its maiden flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_279\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/German-Air-ForceFirst-Airbus-A-400M-Atlas-141014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-279\" class=\"size-full wp-image-279\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/German-Air-ForceFirst-Airbus-A-400M-Atlas-141014.jpg\" alt=\"First German Air Force A-400M Atlas\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/German-Air-ForceFirst-Airbus-A-400M-Atlas-141014.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/German-Air-ForceFirst-Airbus-A-400M-Atlas-141014-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-279\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First German Air Force A-400M Atlas makes its maiden flight (c) Airbus Defence and Space (Photo by Airbus Group)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>The first Airbus A-400M new generation airlifter ordered by the German Air Force has made its maiden flight, marking a key milestone towards its delivery. The aircraft, known as MSN18, took off from Seville, Spain today at 14:30 local time (GMT+1) and landed back on site 4 hours and 58 minutes later.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Experimental Test Pilot Thomas Wilhelm, who captained the flight, said after landing: \u201cIt is a great privilege to have conducted the first flight of the German Air Force\u2019s first A400M. I am absolutely confident that the combination of strategic range with true tactical capability that it brings will contribute enormously to the service\u2019s air mobility capability for military and humanitarian missions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft is the first of 53 ordered by the German Air Force and will be known in-service as the A-400M<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airbusgroup.com\/int\/en\/news-media\/press-releases\/Airbus-Group\/Financial_Communication\/2014\/10\/20141014_airbus_defence_and_space_a400m_luftwaffe_first_flight.html\" target=\"_blank\">www.airbusgroup.co<\/a>m \u2013 14 October 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Airbus A-400M new generation airlifter ordered by the German Air Force has made its maiden flight, marking a key milestone towards its delivery. The aircraft, known as MSN18, took off from Seville,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[123,122,60,121,124],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}