X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from atlrel9.hp.com ([156.153.255.214] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1c.4) with ESMTPS id 1426240 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:52:51 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=156.153.255.214; envelope-from=dale.r@cox.net Received: from taynzmail03.nz-tay.cpqcorp.net (relay.dec.com [16.47.4.103]) by atlrel9.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 525B934AC7 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:44:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [16.83.228.136] (unknown [16.83.228.136]) by taynzmail03.nz-tay.cpqcorp.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BC22912D for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:48:52 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <451D404B.5000001@cox.net> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:48:27 -0700 From: Dale Rogers Reply-To: dale.r@cox.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Fuel - Weights and Measures References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit George Lendich wrote:

I found it interesting to see how some measurements evolved i.e a foot was someone's foot ( perhaps the King's) a yard is taken from the shoulder joint to the finger tips - from what I've read etc. etc. I have just found the variation of the gallon annoying from the Aviation point of view - then one starts to wonder WHY?
George ( down under)

Why it is annoying - or why the different measures?
In the latter case, it's clearly a manifestation of N.I.H.

Dale R.