The Metric System and the US... thoughts?

[Captain Kilowatt]

How about GENERAL DISCUSSIONS. Same section this thread is in.

Oh hell.....wait a minute.

OK here it is.

http://www.worldwidedx.com/announcements-open-forum/171222-malaysian-airliner-shot-down.html

 

[Lil'Yeshua]

How about GENERAL DISCUSSIONS. Same section this thread is in.

Oh hell.....wait a minute.

OK here it is.

http://www.worldwidedx.com/announcements-open-forum/171222-malaysian-airliner-shot-down.html

Thank you.
Just got home from work.

 

[Rick330man]

That 7.4 litre Volvo marine engine in my boat is simply a tried and true marinized, American made GM 454 cubic inch block.

 

[binrat]

As for the Gimli Glider, yeah that was a screw up in converting some measurements. The fuel gauges were out of service however a perfectly acceptable procedure was to dip the tanks and compute fuel volume. Someone measured in centimeters and calculated the fuel based on inches. The aircraft had less than half the fuel they thought it had. The fact that the pilot was an experienced glider pilot and the co-pilot actually served in the Royal Canadian Air Force and had at one time been stationed at what was then RCAF Station Gimli. Unbeknownst to him however the base had been closed down and the runway converted to a drag race strip.Events were going on there at the time of the landing.

Gimli Glider - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Oh boy, I'm going to regret this but.... I had a good friend posted there when it was active. Yes, I'm getting old.

 

[The Bruce]

MCVLIII? Doesn't appear to be a good Roman numeral. MCLVIII would be 1,158.

Those damned Romans made me dyslexic. Dyslexic, I tell ya!!!!!!

 

[Mudfoot]

And Beetle extrapolated all that while piloting his chariot.

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

Oh boy, I'm going to regret this but.... I had a good friend posted there when it was active. Yes, I'm getting old.

I was 20 years old when it happened. Yep.....welcome to the "gett'in old club".

 

[Lil'Yeshua]

Let's not forget this.
Mars Probe Lost Due to Simple Math Error - Los Angeles Times

AlgebraWouldSaveOurLives - YouTube

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

That JPL error was just plain stupid. You would think that a project like that would have the units included so ft.lbs. instead of nM. It probably did but nobody paid any attention to it.

 

[Road Squawker]

Unless it was brought down by a metric bolt being used.....new thread please.

would those be ISO or SAE threads?

 

[Road Squawker]

.... Hey Fred, will you grab my adjustable wrench for me, no not that one the metric one.

do you want the right or left handed one?