Woke aviation history

[pmccarthy]

Remember that short woman, lovely Rita metre maid?

[Marty_d]

10 minutes ago, spacesailor said:

My jogging  gives ( on the phone ap ) 0.16 Klmtre .

Please translate to Mtrs 

spacesailor

160m

[Red]

4 hours ago, coljones said:

That is a very big meter. However there are 1000 mm in a metre 

100 centimetres is exactly the same as 1000 millimetres, so apart from the grammar what's your point?

[Student Pilot]

On 10/4/2025 at 2:30 PM, Marty_d said:

You don't need the deci- and centi- words. 

Works better just with the thousands.

1 litre =1000 millilitres.

1 kilometre = 1000 metres.

1 metre = 1000 millimetres.

So much better than nautical miles, statute miles, furlongs, chains, rods, cubits and yards

[spacesailor]

Or on my phone " 0.18 klmts at 1min.56 sec " .

My morning jog .

I had to ask what 0.18 klmtrs was = 180 mtrs .. 

Easy my foot .

spacesailor

 

PS. : I can no longer add-up a shopping list . As I used to when using £Sd .

. I loose count halfway through 

Edited Friday at 11:30 AM by spacesailor
PS added

[planedriver]

Whatever happened to the quid, soverine, crown and half a crown to say nothing about the poor old thuppence and sprazee?

[Red]

6 hours ago, spacesailor said:

Or on my phone " 0.18 klmts at 1min.56 sec " .

My morning jog .

I had to ask what 0.18 klmtrs was = 180 mtrs .. 

Easy my foot .

spacesailor

 

PS. : I can no longer add-up a shopping list . As I used to when using £Sd .

. I loose count halfway through 

Metric is  easy, no system is as straightforward as metric, all you have to do is move the decimal point around...everything is just multiples of 10 innit

But converting stuff from one system to another (usualy trying to convert to your familiar system) is of course a different matter, I'd be completely discombobulated if you stuck an altimeter graduated in metres in front of me

 

How many Litres in a Bushel???

[ClintonB]

Isn’t that why we carry our whizz wheels with us to conver thingys to watsits

 

[facthunter]

The plastic one we carried in our pockets buckled with the heat, we were that fast. Nev

[spacesailor]

I wasn't converting metrics to another system.

I can't understand 0.18 of a Kilometre.  

On a " walking ap " ( Strava ) .or  decimals of " kilometres per hour " .

why not 'meters per second ' , it makes just as much sense .

As " litres per bushel " , 

one is volume . The other, a farmer's " arm reach " around straw .

What next a " peck " of picked plums in litres .

Or ten kilohertz of concrete  in a driveway . ( sound of. Truck unloading in Decibels ) .

spacesailor

 

 

[facthunter]

.18 is almost .2 which is !/5th of a Km.=s 1000 metres so just under 200 metres 180 is 90% of 200. .  Any distance covered / time elapsed is a speed.

  Speed change/elapsed time is acceleration rate.. Nev

[Red]

1 hour ago, spacesailor said:

I wasn't converting metrics to another system.

I can't understand 0.18 of a Kilometre.  

On a " walking ap " ( Strava ) .or  decimals of " kilometres per hour " .

why not 'meters per second ' , it makes just as much sense .

As " litres per bushel " , 

one is volume . The other, a farmer's " arm reach " around straw .

What next a " peck " of picked plums in litres .

Or ten kilohertz of concrete  in a driveway . ( sound of. Truck unloading in Decibels ) .

spacesailor

 

 

I know you weren't converting SS

 

Different Bushel SS...?  https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/bushel&ved=2ahUKEwiL9O7Y2tGMAxWOQEEAHcjfMNcQFnoECDQQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2ex-it179YfJ2XJWqV69aI

Edited Saturday at 05:01 AM by Red

[Red]

1 hour ago, facthunter said:

.18 is almost .2 which is !/5th of a Km.=s 1000 metres so just under 200 metres 180 is 90% of 200. .  Any distance covered / time elapsed is a speed.

  Speed change/elapsed time is acceleration rate.. Nev

Lol

[facthunter]

Yeah Everybody knows that stuff.  sorry.  Nev

[johnm]

volumetric conversions - here's one that is handy

 

Whiskey

700 mls - 40 % alcohol means = 280 mls alcohol (rocket fuel)

 

has 22 standard drinks

 

280 mls divided by 22 = 12 to 13 mls of rocket fuel per standard drink

 

other liquids with rocket fuel suspended within

the above calculation works ruffly with other liquids

 

standard drink

about 13 mls of alcohol  

[440032]

On 10/04/2025 at 2:56 PM, pmccarthy said:

Remember that short woman, lovely Rita metre maid?

Tiny Rita, the metre meter maid, who's duties are to mete out justice to wayward parkers, parking a metre out from the kerb?

THAT Rita?