XPost: rec.arts.drwho
From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
In article <0vb8mc5i5grnbeh05v0ldeibve1e7t6r8n@4ax.com>,
Pudentame wrote:
>On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 16:17:45 -0000 (UTC), solar penguin
> wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 15:48:56 +0000, Yads yapped...
>>
>>> In article ,
>>> solar penguin wrote:
>>>>On Sun, 09 Jul 2017 23:20:05 +0000, Yads yapped...
>>>>
>>>>> In article <7c07f1de-1224-42d5-b682-e073897279d7@googlegroups.com>,
>>>>> Tim Bruening wrote:
>>>>>>On Sunday, July 9, 2017 at 5:14:44 AM UTC-7, The Doctor wrote:
>>>>>>> Remind me to tell you the stroy of an Ottawa to Edmonton bound
>>>>>>> filight that ended up in Gimli.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I hereby remind you.
>>>>>
>>>>> Misconverted gallons (Imp) to litres and the flight ran out of fuel
>>>>> half-way to its destination and had to glide its way to an emergency
>>>>> landing.
>>>>
>>>>But how did it end up inside a fictional dwarf?
>>>
>>> dwarf?
>>
>>Gimli, son of Gloín.
>
>FWIW:
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKpfLrvfAak
>
>Flight management computer was INOP, so fuel load had to be calculated
>manually. This was just after Canada switched to the Metric System.
>
>The crew calculated the needed fuel in kilograms. The ground crew
>pumped pounds of fuel, so the aircraft received less than half of the
>required fuel on board.
>
>It wouldn't be quite such cool story without the "happy ending".
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ffryZAd4Nw
>
Well hence I say metric is useless.
Now for the USE to use real Gallons.
--
Member - Liberal International This is doctor@@nl2k.ab.ca Ici do
tor@@nl2k.ab.ca
Yahweh, Queen & country!Never Satan President Republic!Beware AntiChrist
rising!
https://www.empire.kred/ROOTNK?t=94a1f39b Look at Psalms 14 and 53 on Atheism
Talk Sense to a fool and he calls you foolish - Euripides
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
|
