July 30, 201411 yr Here is a really nice 5 episode documentary about the developement of the 777 and many of the testflights it had to go through: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=2st+century+jet Finn Jacobsen System: i7-10700K, 32GB RAM, RTX4070 12GB, 1 x 1TB SSD, 2 x 2TB SSD, 1x 2TB HDD, Win10 64bit Home, Meta Quest 3
July 30, 201411 yr Finn, for some weird reason I expected a video with 'Salvatore' doing some 'nifty' coding for the PMDG rendition, LOL! What happened to AVSIM
July 30, 201411 yr Absolutely remarkable, and somewhat shocking, that a company like Boeing is (was?) using imperial measurement and not metric. Metric is far more precise and easy to use.
August 1, 201411 yr Absolutely remarkable, and somewhat shocking, that a company like Boeing is (was?) using imperial measurement and not metric. Metric is far more precise and easy to use.US units are still widely used in America. They are as precise as metric units.
August 1, 201411 yr Absolutely remarkable, and somewhat shocking, that a company like Boeing is (was?) using imperial measurement and not metric. Metric is far more precise and easy to use. I find myself using imperial for rough measurements but metric for anything precise. That's not because metric is more precise, in fact imperial is just as precise, It's as you say, metric is easier, more convenient. Some claim that we in the UK use the metric system. Actually that's a joke. We use both the metric system and imperial. We check our weight in stones and pounds, have speed limits in MPH, speedometers in MPH. We use feet, inches, yards, metres, centimetres, millimetres and fractions of an inch... You could say they tried to metricate us but it got stalled half way, so we ended up using both.
August 1, 201411 yr Some claim that we in the UK use the metric system. Actually that's a joke. We use both the metric system and imperial. We check our weight in stones and pounds, have speed limits in MPH, speedometers in MPH. We use feet, inches, yards, metres, centimetres, millimetres and fractions of an inch... I maintain several Hawker business jets, whose airframes were built in the UK, and then completed in the US. Much of the hardware is imperial, but there are a smattering of bolts and fasteners in the aircraft that use the rather obscure "British Standard" system of sizes, which complicates things. We do have a set of British Standard spanners, which were quite difficult to come by - I think we had to special order them from a supplier in the UK. Jim BarrettLicensed Airframe & Powerplant Mechanic, Avionics, Electrical & Air Data Systems Specialist. Qualified on: Falcon 900, CRJ-200, Dornier 328-100, Hawker 850XP and 1000, Lear 35, 45, 55 and 60, Gulfstream IV and 550, Embraer 135, Beech Premiere and 400A, MD-80.
August 1, 201411 yr That would be Whitworth then Jim? BSW.The worlds first national screw thread standard.Rule Britannia. :smile:
August 1, 201411 yr That would be Whitworth then Jim? BSW. The worlds first national screw thread standard. Rule Britannia. :smile: Yes indeed, BSW! Jim BarrettLicensed Airframe & Powerplant Mechanic, Avionics, Electrical & Air Data Systems Specialist. Qualified on: Falcon 900, CRJ-200, Dornier 328-100, Hawker 850XP and 1000, Lear 35, 45, 55 and 60, Gulfstream IV and 550, Embraer 135, Beech Premiere and 400A, MD-80.
August 1, 201411 yr I've gotten used to using imperial now, very odd to get my head around to begin with but working in the aviation industry its no problem, it becomes the normal thing! AME GE90, GP7200 CFM56
August 1, 201411 yr Try telling someone in Europe you have a slight fever! "I've just checked my temperature it's 99" The person to whom you have just said that is now on the way to hospital with a heart attack! Super VC10 into LOWI with PF3 at a cinema near you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=298UDyNmgUA
August 1, 201411 yr Wasn't the "Gimli Glider" a victim of those imperial/metric/British/U.S. back-and-forth conversions? What happened to AVSIM
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