How Airbus Took Off

Re:How Airbus Took Off by mmooss on Sunday November 09, 2025 @12:14PM (#45867144)

> Early on, the company adopted English as its working language and U.S. measurements to appeal to a wider range of airline customers.

Airbus uses US measurements - i.e., not the metric system?

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Re:How Airbus Took Off by neves on Sunday November 09, 2025 @01:24PM (#45867783)

I'm speechless

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Re:How Airbus Took Off by tim333 on Sunday November 09, 2025 @02:39PM (#45868471)

They use SAE nuts and bolts. "Society of Automotive Engineers and refers to the system of inch-based fasteners used primarily in North America"

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Re:How Airbus Took Off by mmooss on Sunday November 09, 2025 @03:16PM (#45868784)

Is that the standard in the airline industry? For example, does Embraer use SAE too? Lockheed (I thought the US military used metric)?

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Re:How Airbus Took Off by tim333 on Sunday November 09, 2025 @07:04PM (#45870613)

Update - google says Embraer uses SAE. Apparently Airbus helicopters are metric though.

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