{"id":193044,"date":"2009-01-24T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T12:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/24\/rumors-that-eads-will-abandon-a400m-transport\/"},"modified":"2009-01-24T07:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T12:44:00","slug":"rumors-that-eads-will-abandon-a400m-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/24\/rumors-that-eads-will-abandon-a400m-transport\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumors that EADS Will Abandon A400M Transport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/businessNews\/idUSTRE50M2FX20090123?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=businessNews\">suspended production<\/a> and the prototype is yet to fly, though the engine has <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">finally<\/span> taken to the air in the C-130 testbed, and now the Financial Times Deutschland is reporting that EADS is considering walking away from the contract.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how that would work, but EADS is facing some fairly substantial penalties for the delays, and<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that the rumors, and the dire statements made by EADS executives, are an attempt to move negotiations on delays in their favor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They have suspended production and the prototype is yet to fly, though the engine has finally taken to the air in the C-130 testbed, and now the Financial Times Deutschland is reporting that EADS is considering walking away from the contract. I&#8217;m not sure how that would work, but EADS is facing some fairly substantial &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,984],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}