I saw it recently on the Air Crash Investigation Series and I have seen a movie about this event. They did not degenerate into anti-metric rants, and that would have been sooooooo easy! That was however the case with the covering by Readers Digest, which spouted the line of the Progressive Conservatives, the vote-catching anti-metric party. In 1968 Readers Digest was pro-metric and published a positive article by Harland Manchester about British metrication. However some time later, RD published a piece of 'humour' which marked their switch to the other side. ----- Original Message ----- From: Pat Naughtin To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Thursday, 2008, June 19 7:46 Subject: [USMA:41179] Gimli Glider turns 25
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/ for more metrication information, contact Pat at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or to get the free 'Metrication matters' newsletter go to: http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter/ to subscribe.
