Wayne Lundberg wrote:
"Carl McIver" wrote in message
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"Wayne Lundberg" wrote in message
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Thank you one and all for your insight and thoughts. But my question
remains
unanswered.

Has Boeing gone metric in their basic aircraft design world of HP,

thrust,

Lbs/sq/in, drag, coef friction, tensil strengths, elongation, stress,
strain, materials, heat treatment parameters in f, times in minutes,

miles

and not meters.... wire gauges, fasteners and on and on an on which made
them the greatest manufacturer of quality aircraft in the world?

Please. I'm not bashing the metric system. Just plain curious as to why
anybody would discard a century of technology simply to satisfy some
imaginary concept that just because the rest of the world jumps off a
cliff,
why should we?

Lemmings?

I left Commercial over a year ago. The 787 I don't know much about,

but

ISTR in my limited work with some tiny projects for it, it's still

imperial.

Nobody I've talked to has mentioned metric in any way, and believe me,
they'd say something. Boeing isn't about to make the switch to metric
unless there's a serious need, and I have a hard time seeing it. They're
not resisting metric just because they want to conform to some silly

notion

of conformity, but trying to change all that to metric is economic suicide
for any company heavily tied to engineering designs.



AMEN.... amen.... amen...

Thank you so much. You have given me a true spiritual uplift in that for
once I can see management as being on the right side of the equation and not
the kinds of upes we see at GM. I admire Boeing, in spite of the problems,
as one of the US's greatest example of overall excellence. Look at them...
standing alone against a European consortium of socialistic money and
against every US labor regulation and insane environmental and OSHA rules
still staying on top of the pyramid.

Thanks!

Wayne




I can give you another uplift as well,
Im with Boeing, as a desiner, maker and marketer of my own products,
direct to the user.
Like Boeing, I stand or fall by my own efforts, competing in my busines
field with other co.s similar to my work.
My customers choose my products not on wether they are made in metric
units or imperial units but on my overall competitive value.
Im in the UK which has standardised on the Metric system except where it
conflictswith old tradition , like a pint of beer our road distances
are still in miles of 1760 yds with 36 ins in a yard. we can still buy
a pound of bananas tho the weight is given in both lbs and kilos.
I use the imperial system just like Boeing, because all my machinery
is set to work this way. my lathe is imperial.
I can make everything in metric but it costs more, just like it would
from Boeing.
As for the Newton, well, its a vague name so could mean anything , but
lbs per sq in . says what it is. and thats why folk prefer it, and will
continue to do so.