Enroute Airbus A380 wake flips Challenger business jet upside down

Re:Enroute Airbus A380 wake flips Challenger business jet up... by errantspark on Thursday March 16, 2017 @10:29PM (#13890891)

Mostly an aviation thing but descended from the fact that many early airplanes were American/British. IIRC only China, Russia and the DPRK use metric units.

EDIT: ahahaha <3 HN commenters

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Re:Enroute Airbus A380 wake flips Challenger business jet up... by sneak on Friday March 17, 2017 @04:13AM (#13892366)

Containers are also sadly measured in TEU (twenty foot equivalent units) stemming from their American design.

Global, impossible to upgrade standards that mean we are stuck with imperial units for a hundred years yet or more.

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Re:Enroute Airbus A380 wake flips Challenger business jet up... by rangibaby on Thursday March 16, 2017 @11:33PM (#13891224)

I believe Russia uses FL measurements since a few years ago.

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