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Old 23rd Jul 2013, 11:28
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the milling of the skins for the wings was cutting edge technology for the day
Ahh yes, they found a crack on a wing in Hong Kong that was leaking go juice, the crew taking the decision without any engineering backup to fly it back to the UK and then report it, the way the skins were produced it could have run like a zip opening, luckily it didn't.

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