Hagen Brothers farms,Goodrich ND | BOGTROTTER - 3/2/2013 15:59
Our Imperial or English measurements (inch, pound etc.) are legally defined by metric test bars and weights kept in the Bureau Of Standards. I think the original argument back at the time when Canada switched was our aircraft industry wasn't smart enough to build airplanes using metric measurements and tools.
Remember the jet airliner( 767-200) that had to become the worlds largest glider ?? During the early metrification of Canada, a confused ground crew filled the plane with the required number of liters of fuel, only it should have had that number of Imp gallons. Result was the plane had less than 1/4 the required amount of fuel, and ran out of fuel in mid air. They managed to glide to an abandoned ww2 Canadian air base to land. Problem was, the abandoned air strip was in use by a group doing some function on the landing strip.
It sounded like that part got a little intense as folks scattered like chickens from a silent plane with dead engines that had only one chance to land .
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Gimli+Glider
http://forum.thefreedictionary.com/postst17523_The--Gimli-Glider---...
Edited by Jon Hagen 3/1/2013 18:37
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