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Re:Ending the Era of the U.S. Survey Foot by alexpotato on Friday January 31, 2020 @03:53PM (#22205595)
Back in the 90s, new construction for the US Govt was supposed to all be done using the metric standard even though all of the supplies were in US/Imperial units. Can't imagine the headaches that caused.

Source: My uncle who is/was a contractor

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Re:Ending the Era of the U.S. Survey Foot by kevin_thibedeau on Friday January 31, 2020 @04:50PM (#22206192)
The Comanche helicopter was subject to this dictum. The original drawings specified all metric fasteners. They found out nobody supplies aircraft grade metric bolts so everything had to be redesigned for the next size up in freedom-units with a corresponding weight penalty.
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