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Stick one in a Galaxy and have it towed up and down past the screaming crowd at Farnborough? It does make you wonder why, given the
PR importance of the aircraft making it to this side of the pond and the challenges of ferrying single-engine and short-legged 'developmental' aircraft over the Atlantic, they didn't opt to ship them over via C-17/C-5 well ahead of time in the first place.
Perhaps because it won't fit in a C-17 or C-5. 35 foot span on the B- too big without taking the wings off, and that would be a major reassembly. A smarter move would have been to ferry a few B's over on a LHD as part of an exercise, "training" or a deployment.