I cannot imagine that Airbus designed and built in anything other than metric;
they just may have dumbed down the description to inches in an effort to sell
the planes in North America.
Carleton
From: Kilopascal [mailto:kilopas...@cox.net]
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 20:16
To: U.S.
I agree, I’ve dealt a lot with Dassault Aviation, another French aviation
company and seen many of their engineering drawings which are 100% metric, they
do add inches in Maintenance Manuals for American maintenance people. I noticed
our maintenance engineer would more easily deal with only the
According to the Associated Press, Washington State is trying to diversify its
aircraft economy by persuading Airbus to begin manufacturing its aircraft in
Washington State, while retaining Boeing operations in Washington. (You will
recall that Boeing Headquarters was moved to Chicago, and
