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[morninggents]

With all this talk about mpg don't forget a US gallon is approximately 3.85 litres whilst an imperial gallon is 4.55 litres.

[Gerard C]

Something the airlines companies learnt on the hard way.

[broadrun96]

These things are so God awful ugly. And yes, yes that line behind him is the stop bar and that's not a flashing yellow turn arrow, it's solid red. And the grey dust on the ground in front is speedi-dri from yet another left turn guy trying to beat the light. There were at least 5 bumpers on the grass earlier in December, good Atliens will know the intersection



This was a lot of colors, does the red really go with the rest? All the badges were red replacements. And do they let you up size tires so use an aftermarket plate hanger on the rear? Better solution than many of the jeeps who kinda sorta hang it inside the tinted back glass

[Mike Harte]

Originally Posted by Gerard C

Something the airlines companies learnt on the hard way.

Not quite, Gérard because aviation fuel is calculated by weight, not volume. What you may be thinking about was the incident where the pilots miscalculated the conversion between pounds and kilograms, when an airline ended up actually gliding without power into an airport because they hadn't loaded sufficient fuel.

Nowadays, the standard is that all countries, bar very few like Russia, I believe, now deliver fuel weighed by pounds not kilos.

[broadrun96]

Yup, and no temperature conversion needed for weight either

[Gerard C]

Correct Mike, sorry. Happily things have gone more clear and simple over the years: "One pound is the same as 16 ounces (oz) or 1 2 0 0 0 ton (short ton). This also means that one ton is the same as 2000 pounds. There are other units for measuring weight that are less commonly used, such as stone and quarter."

[fieldodreams79]

State Government Vehicles

[joeb]

Non factory wing alert