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Old 6th Sep 2007, 16:53
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In order to roll it out on 7/8/7 (8th July 07, American-style date), they had to assemble it with 'temporary fasteners' according to Press reports today. A triumph of marketing imperative over engineering reality, as it were, which might whimsically be expressed mathematically as >>

So they have now had to take the prototype to pieces to re-assemble it properly, and one wonders just how small those pieces are. The paperwork associated with undoing and re-doing a flight vehicle must be a one-off nightmare.
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