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Old 5th February 2005 | 23:26
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Sky Wave
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Thinking logically, the weight of the aircraft is supported by the wings in flight so it really shouldn't matter if the wings are a bit light.

Cheers anyway.

I'm still wondering why they bothered with concrete blocks at Boeing when the 74's first came out. The mass & balance suggestion could be an answer but I understood they did it with all of them, surely you could have calculated the M & B and wouldn't have needed to put concrete blocks on every aircraft. Can anyone confirm if it was done for that reason?
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