"We have had a very successful first flight -- the take-off performance was impressive, we explored a lot of the operational flight envelope, and it was a delight to operate in such a well-designed cockpit with its easy interface to all the normal and military systems," Edward Strongman, Airbus' chief military test pilot, said in a news release. "I'm sure our customer pilots are really going to like it -- we certainly did." (Quoted from article)