Airbus can quote airplane details in colonial units, and have the instrumentation display that, but I think we're talking more about the tooling and design of the airframe itself. I cannot imagine that Airbus builds planes to anything other than a metric specification, even if it dumbs down the dimensions for the Americans.
Someone who works out in Seattle tells me Boeing's engineering designs are in inches and tenths of inches. Figures. Carleton From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Hooper Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 13:58 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:40540] Re: Airbus vs. Boeing as it relates to metrication. On 2008 Mar 12 , at 11:02 AM, Michael Palumbo wrote: My understanding was that everything coming out of Airbus was fully metricated, particularly since it is based in France and other EU member states that are fully metric. I know there is a significant number of parts made in the UK, but I did not believe those parts were on the inch standard. Please correct me if I'm wrong. -Mike I think you are probably correct, Mike, but if the US placed an order with Airbus and the order specified Ye Olde English units, I think Airbus might try to accommodate their Olde English customers be making it to Olde English specifications. After all, it would be worth a couple Giga-bucks to them! I hope it is indeed all metric but I would not jump to that conclusion. I'd like to get some confirmation of that before I celebrate. Regards, Bill Hooper Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA ========================== Make It Simple; Make It Metric! ==========================
