I liked this one from Jim's post at http://tinyurl.com/yvwv9f
Just yesterday the ISS crew called down and said we have the metric torque
wrench and the procedure says the value in ft-lbs. Could someone do the
conversion for them? The flight director responded "I can't believe we are
having this conversation in the 21st century.
yeah, right.
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Frysinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, 12 March 2008 18:56
Subject: [USMA:40541] Airplane units of measurement
Probably for proprietary reasons, it is difficult to quickly determine
what units of measurement airplanes are designed in. I did find some
interesting links, though.
This interesting page provides cargo specifications for several aircraft
in both "U.S. Standards" and "Metric Standars". Of course, that says
nothing about the units the aircraft were designed in.
http://www.nwa.com/services/shipping/cargo/aircraft.html
Airbus provides a page of gross specifications on their A330/A340 family
in both "metric" and "imperial" units.
http://www.airbus.com/en/aircraftfamilies/a330a340/a330-200/specifications.html
A discussion thread I found is interesting. One poster claims (2/15/08
4:07 PM) that Boeing went metric starting with its 767 series. Another
poster asserts (2/15/08 05:38 PM) that Airbus planes have a switch to
select metric or non-metric readouts on its flight panels.
http://uplink.space.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=missions&Number=883054&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=0&fpart=
Jim
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