Doesn't the US aircraft and aerospace industry still use imperial measure? Brian of SpotMog
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Mike Schofield <[email protected]>wrote: > In the late '60s I worked at Toulouse on the Jaguar when Concorde was > being assembled in the next hangar. Dimensions were a classic fudge; at the > behest of the French all drawings were in metric so we ended up with, for > example, 12,7mm or 6.35mm which of course translate to half and a quarter > of an inch. Only on the next generation of aircraft did we go fully metric. > regards > Mike Schofield > Lytham > > > ------------------------------**------------- > View posts on The Mail Archive > http://www.mail-archive.com/**[email protected]/<http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>[ > http://www.mail-archive.com/**[email protected]/<http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > ] > > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/** > member/?&id_**secret=7011762-bef882bf<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > ------------------------------------------- View posts on The Mail Archive http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ [http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/] Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=22459785&id_secret=22459785-4a39ddf8 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
