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| Mar 27, 2017 at 23:42 | comment | added | AlexP | You are missing the point. What you do when you have an aircraft/rocket/ship in inches and want to produce it in a metric country is you either metrify it or build a special production line using machines in inches. You can measure it in inches or whatever, make a set of drawings in inches, then hire a large team of engineers to redo the drawings in meters using appropriate standard sizes. Or, if you are rich and pressed for time, you can build a specialized factory which uses tools in inches -- lathes, rollmills etc. In the particular example, the Li-2 was a metrified DC-3. | |
| Mar 27, 2017 at 23:02 | comment | added | Jay Kominek | @AlexP I swapped the direction of the units comparison, so you and all other metric users can focus on how I'm really trying to talk about the unrealized complexity of modern supply chains, rather than any inherent attributes of people who use one system of units or another. | |
| Mar 27, 2017 at 22:56 | history | edited | Jay Kominek | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
i've swapped the directions of the units comparison so that the metrically-inclined won't be upset
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| Mar 27, 2017 at 18:14 | comment | added | AlexP | The all-metric Soviet Union bought a license for the all-American inches, ounces, furlongs and firkins Douglas DC-3 and built thousands of Lisunov Li-2 aircraft... Metric people are not only perfectly capable of using rulers marked in inches, we also do know what a Whitworth thread is and we are able to measure it. | |
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| Mar 27, 2017 at 17:51 | history | answered | Jay Kominek | CC BY-SA 3.0 |