When on the project, and within 5 months of supposed first flight (which didn't happen for 2 years), I was asked by an aerodynamics / CofG engineer whether if they loaded the bomb bay with torpedoes in the forward rack positions, there would be the possibility of actually landing with them, at the end of the sortie.
When the answer was yes, and it was unlikely we would jettison hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of torpedo, because we hadn't found anything to drop them on, it seemed to cause a fair amount of concern.
There isn't a lot of fuel to shift around in the tanks to rectify the CofG issues after an 8 hour sortie!!
That was one of many concerning issues at that time, and points to possible lack of understanding of the whole mainplane problem. Or more likely perhaps they were just trying to make the best of a bad job by then.