"Robert Briggs" wrote in message
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Tarver Engineering wrote:
John Mullen wrote:
Tarver Engineering wrote:
Paul Hirose wrote:

There's a vote going now on creating a newsgroup about the
metric system:

The metric system is off topic for aviation newsgroups.

Far from it.

Russians use metric units and Western aircraft use English units,
the two safety records speak for themselves.

That's an interesting notion in view of the origin of the term
"Gimli Glider" ...

Canadian socialists persueing a metric agenda made a change that added a
branch to the failure tree. Without that arbitrary change there was no
Gimli Glider.