Dear All,
Yesterday one of our commercial TV channels showed the Gimli Glider
story as part of the 'Air Crash Investigations' series.
I remembered the story quite well especially the extremely well
written story by Wade Nelson at: http://www.wadenelson.com/gimli.html
Today, I found that the story is available on YouTube as a series of
segments. The segment that is most relevant to metrication is Part 5
and you will find it at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D12dMmgTdBI
For those who don't know this story, it is based on the fact that
pounds of fuel were loaded into a 767 aircraft when kilograms of fuel
were required.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
PO Box 305 Belmont 3216,
Geelong, Australia
Phone: 61 3 5241 2008
Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has
helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the
modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they
now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for
their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many
different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial
and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA.
Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST,
and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com/
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