Madan wrote in USMA 14080: >Joseph Reid wrote > >I have just located a page of Aerospatiale that gave >specifications of their Airbus A340 lines. Although I >accessed the French page, all the specifications were >given in feet, pounds and US gallons. That does not >prove that the Airbus line was designed in I-P units, >but merely that I-P units were used in the WWW page to >enable comparison to be made with competing US >products. See >http://www.eads-nv.com/xml/fr/businet/airbus/airbusfam/a340/ta340500.xml >*** > >Now Airbus has secured enough orders that they can >start displaying values in SI. >http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1402000/1402496.stm > >Once if they start it, then Boeing will follow it in >displaying and using SI. Airbus speciofications in I-P and metric can be found at http://www1.airbus.com/sitemap.asp Joseph B. Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071
