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Old 9th Jul 2018, 18:50
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ericferret
 
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The comments on weight saving made me smile. The AW169 has dozens and dozens of titanium screws holding on various panels.
Every time an engineer rounds one out it is going to cost about 30 dollars a steel equivalent is less than dollar.
Seems to be a new AW profit centre AW 139 winglet screws are even worse for price.
AW must have shares in a screw factory.
The number of screws holding purely trim panels is past a joke, try getting access in the baggage bay to the avionics.
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