[Boatanchors] Metric system?

[J. Forster]

I get annoyed when Talking Heads mention Knots/Hour.

A Story:

Years ago (early 1950s) an airforce officer was toureing the first plane
with an Inertial Navigation System (Project Spire) and bitched about a
meter marked Knots/Hour. Doc Darper gently informed him the legend was
correct...  the meter showed cross-track acceleration in knotts/hr.

Best,

-John

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> Hi John:
> Thanks for the response.  You are correct in the per second per second
> statement but when I said ACCELERATE, it implies per second per second.
> Thanks again for your response and a Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday
> season to you and yours.  Kindest regards Jim K9AXN
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "J. Forster" <jfor at quik.com>
> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 10:13 AM
> To: "James Liles" <james.liles at comcast.net>
> Cc: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Metric system?
>
>>
>> [snip]
>>> He explained that a Slug was a measure of Mass, that
>>> when
>>> subjected to one Pound of force would accelerate at one Foot/Second.
>> [snip]
>>
>> Nope:  one foot per second per second.
>>
>> -John
>>
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>>
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