Topic of the week # 119 - A400M

[Bernard]

For this week's comp, I opted for an aircraft that I find quite difficult to photograph: the A-400M (5 pics maximum)

[Professor_M]

With two Tornados in tow, RIAT 2023...
German Air Force A400M Atlas, Tornado IDS + IDS(T) by Professor M, on Flickr

Belgian at Waddington...
Belgian Air Component A400M Atlas CT-05 by Professor M, on Flickr

[buccs2b]

On the pan at Brize Norton
ZM414 by Tony Adams, on Flickr

Company demonstrator Fairford 2014
A400M by Tony Adams, on Flickr

Second Atlas delivered to the RAF, Fairford 2015
A400M by Tony Adams, on Flickr

Final Atlas delivered to the RAF, Brize Norton 2023
121A5176 by Tony Adams, on Flickr

Company demonstrator Fairford 2013
A400M by Tony Adams, on Flickr

[capercaillie]

Here's a perfectly good and very unique aircraft that was ultimately destroyed needlessly after an A400M engine was botched onto the airframe, an operation that took so long, by the time it was done the A400M was just about ready to fly itself with four of them on!

RIP Snoopy.
Hercules W2 XV208 MRF Boscombe Down by Paul Downes, on Flickr

[Holty]

EC-400 by Mark Holt, on Flickr

EC-400 by Mark Holt, on Flickr

ZM401 by Mark Holt, on Flickr

EC-404 by Mark Holt, on Flickr

[Tommy]

[Dom.]

RAF Brize Norton Night Shoot 2016 282 by justdom1, on Flickr

Melun Villaroche Air Legend Saturday 116 by Dominic Vickery, on Flickr

RIAT 2015 Saturday 1249 by justdom1, on Flickr

RIAT 2014 Saturday 208 by justdom1, on Flickr

[xkekeith]

ZM408 '408' Airbus A400M Atlas C.1 24/70 Sqd RAF by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

54=29 Airbus A400M Lufttransportgeschwader 62 German AF by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

ZM419 '419' Airbus A400M Atlas C.1 24/70 Sqd RAF by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

ZM404 Airbus A400M Atlas C.1 RAF by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

Airbus A400M x5 at Seville by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

[DerekF]

UKAR_D750_05_DSC_0573 by Derek N.Ferguson, on Flickr

UKAR2_D750_04_DSC_0797 by Derek N.Ferguson, on Flickr

zzD750_03_DSC_5356 by Derek N.Ferguson, on Flickr

D600_04_DSC_9943_edit1600 by Derek N.Ferguson, on Flickr

D600_04_DSC_1243_edit5 by Derek N.Ferguson, on Flickr

[AndyXH558]

A400 by andrew abbott, on Flickr

a Nato one.
580A4624 by andrew abbott, on Flickr

[capercaillie]

A400M Atlas C1 EC-400/ZM421 Airbus Defence and Space by Paul Downes, on Flickr

A-400M 54+16 LTG62 German Air Force by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Ooh that sticker
Atlas C1 ZM416 70 Squadron RAF Brize Norton by Paul Downes, on Flickr

A-400M CT-07 20 Squadron Belgian Air Force by Paul Downes, on Flickr

A-400M 54+16 LTG62 German Air Force by Paul Downes, on Flickr

[shorsley]

RAFBrizeNorton_38 by Sarah Horsley, on Flickr

PlatinumJubileeFlypast_20 by Sarah Horsley, on Flickr

Cosford_172 by Sarah Horsley, on Flickr

RIAT2017_95 by Sarah Horsley, on Flickr

FIA2016_22 by Sarah Horsley, on Flickr

[Blackbird]

Airbus A400M Atlas ZM400 Brize photoshoot Oct 2016 by Andrew Shaw, on Flickr

Airbus A400M EC-400 by Andrew Shaw, on Flickr

Airbus A400M EC-404 RIAT 2017 by Andrew Shaw, on Flickr

Airbus A400M Luftwaffe 54+16 RIAT 2023 by Andrew Shaw, on Flickr

Airbus A400M Atlas ZM409 Brize photoshoot Oct 2016 by Andrew Shaw, on Flickr

Andy

[Bernard]

Some nice entries once again. Thanks to those who submitted.
I will choose Holty's A400 taking off at Fairford.
So, over to you, Mark

[Holty]

Wowsers!! Thanks Bernard, high praise indeed!!

Now I have to remember to come up with a winner this time next week, haha!!