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18-Wheeler
Not that it's definitive, but the documentary I saw on the assembly of the first one had the engineers trying to attacth the tailcone to the main structure of the tail. And it was a good 5mm or so out in diameter and so wouldn't fit without a lot of grunting and pushing and stretching.
That really surprised me, and perhaps now I know why ....
Yes I recall that one too... in another segment the fin had been built in Germany and the lead engineer on the fin (who looked like he'd get barred from entering a pub in the US... ) tripped to Toulouse to see it get mated to the fuselage. When they went to connect the cable for the fin-tip camera... short by an inch.
Will be interesting to see what happens when they get their tide tables for the Garonne a bit awry!