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Old 28th Dec 2004, 09:59
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saman
 
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In order to reduce production cost, the guys in TLS have looked at fitting the engines to the wings in Chester - sorry Broughton - then getting pilots to sit astride the engine pylons to fly them to the Nantes/St Nazaire group of factories for the centre section to hold the wings together and some other bits & pieces then to Meulte for the flight deck then to Ham for the rest of the fuselage & fin and then to Spain for the horizontal tailplane then to Hamburg for the interior.


But it did'nt work - the fuel cost was too high.


So they built some A300-600ST Belugas instead.


Now, who put all that sherry in the Xmas pud?
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