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Old Oct 26, 2010 | 1:03 pm
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Originally Posted by motytrah
Weight is going to be less of an issue as the delays allowed them trim down. I think reliability is likely going to be the bigger decider.
Unless I'm badly mistaken they gained weight from additional reinforcements that had to be retrofitted and added to the design.
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