Phil L. B. wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Jul 2003 00:04:54 GMT, paul s <> wrote:
>
>>Michael Garcia wrote:
>>
>>> Can someone tell me if something's weight is 24.1 kg how much is that
>>> in English?
>>
>>I dont understand these French weights.
> You bloody englishman, its 850oz.
Thats the trouble with the UK. I can buy a *pint* of beer, but then the pub
has metric 35centilitre optics.
All my groceries are sold by the
gram/kilogram/millilitre/litre/centimetre/whatever, but then all the
roadsigns are in yards/miles.
I dont know how the airlines manage. I listen quite a bit to airband, they
talk about visibility distances in *metres* , and altitudes in *feet* . In
fact there was a very dangerous case of a metric imperial conversion cockup
in Canada a few years ago. The pilot ordered so many pounds of Jet-A fuel,
the airport had just gone over to metric, result the aircraft ran out of
fuel in mid-flight. There was a TV-movie made about it.
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Paul S
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