Sounds like something out of "Slide Rule" when the R100 team was comparing notes with their R101 rivals. Paul
From: Mike Schofield <[email protected]> To: mogtalk2 <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 11:15 AM Subject: Re: [mogtalk2] Diff Temp - now metric vs imperial In the late '60s I worked at Toulouse on the Jaguar when Concorde was being assembled in the next hangar. Dimensions were a classic fudge; at the behest of the French all drawings were in metric so we ended up with, for example, 12,7mm or 6.35mm which of course translate to half and a quarter of an inch. Only on the next generation of aircraft did we go fully metric. regards Mike Schofield Lytham ------------------------------------------- View posts on The Mail Archive http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ [http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/] Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- View posts on The Mail Archive http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ [http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/] Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=22459785&id_secret=22459785-4a39ddf8 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
