Yes, Brazilian's Embraer Co. DOES design ALL its aircraft in metric, *internally*. However, it might be the case that it has to deal with non-rational dimensions as a result of components not being rationally-designed (I mean metrically, that is).
As far as I know it hasn't abandoned its policy in this regard. Marcus On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 10:19:57 Chimpsarecute wrote: >Doesn't Canada and Brasil produce small planes that are fully metric in >design and components? > >Do any other countries or companies produce planes besides Boeing and Airbus >that may be metric? > >Euric > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Carleton MacDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Sunday, 2003-12-21 18:24 >Subject: [USMA:27909] Re: Airbus and metric > > >> If I remember right, Sud Aviation (which was also involved with the >> Concorde) was one of the European manufacturers that got together to >create >> Airbus. By themselves, they were all making airplanes few people other >than >> their nationalized airlines wanted; together, they made a product that >> evolved and grew to the point of pushing Boeing off its pedestal. >> >> cm >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf >Of >> Bill Potts >> Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 16:21 >> To: U.S. Metric Association >> Subject: [USMA:27904] Re: Airbus and metric >> >> Han Maenen wrote: >> >Indeed, Airbus did not exist yet in 1962 The Caravelle jet was built by a >> >French aircraft builder, but I do not know its name. I read the >> >1964 edition >> >of the Etude Critique, and there the Caravelle and the way it was >developed >> >and built was mentioned. >> >> The manufacturer was Sud Aviation. In the U.S., United Airlines was, I >> think, the only customer for the Caravelle. Air France, of course, had a >> large number of them. >> >> The Caravelle's major flaw was not airframe related. For some reason, the >> engines had a tendency to cut out in flight. Like the MD-80 (now called >the >> Boeing 717), it had twin rear jets. There were quite a few cases of one >> engine failing. There was one case of both engines failing. However the >> pilot managed to restart them. >> >> Apart from the interesting shape of its stabilizer, it had odd windows -- >> triangular (equilateral, slightly rounded, with rounded corners, apex up). >> >> That's all from my memory of contemporaneous news reports and photographs, >> so I'm really dating myself. >> >> Bill Potts, CMS >> Roseville, CA >> http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >> >> > > ____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus
