Woodford the demise [second round]
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No matter what your take on Nimrod MR4 this really shows that the UK, as an aircraft manufacturing nation, is all but done in, and the trend will not be reversed.
No matter what your take on Nimrod MR4 this really shows that the UK, as an aircraft manufacturing nation, is all but done in, and the trend will not be reversed.
Mojocvh said:
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No matter what your take on Nimrod MR4 this really shows that the UK, as an aircraft manufacturing nation, is all but done in, and the trend will not be reversed.
Including or excluding the 4 snooker tables?No matter what your take on Nimrod MR4 this really shows that the UK, as an aircraft manufacturing nation, is all but done in, and the trend will not be reversed.
I can assure you, you wouldn't prevent the decline of any aerospance manufacturing capability worthy of the name by keeping any of that lot.
dr_gn said:
Mojocvh said:
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No matter what your take on Nimrod MR4 this really shows that the UK, as an aircraft manufacturing nation, is all but done in, and the trend will not be reversed.
Including or excluding the 4 snooker tables?No matter what your take on Nimrod MR4 this really shows that the UK, as an aircraft manufacturing nation, is all but done in, and the trend will not be reversed.
I can assure you, you wouldn't prevent the decline of any aerospance manufacturing capability worthy of the name by keeping any of that lot.
Not concerned about them being Mitutoyo though, my own Mitutoyos are a superb instruments, simply that 30 plus years after decimalisation BAE still has several old imperial measuring instruments hanging about.
How can the local car boot sales have thrived if BAE are hanging on to old tat
Shame they are out of the game though, real shame
perdu said:
dr_gn said:
Mojocvh said:
http://www2.ppauctions.com/auction.php?thisPage=1&...
No matter what your take on Nimrod MR4 this really shows that the UK, as an aircraft manufacturing nation, is all but done in, and the trend will not be reversed.
Including or excluding the 4 snooker tables?No matter what your take on Nimrod MR4 this really shows that the UK, as an aircraft manufacturing nation, is all but done in, and the trend will not be reversed.
I can assure you, you wouldn't prevent the decline of any aerospance manufacturing capability worthy of the name by keeping any of that lot.
Not concerned about them being Mitutoyo though, my own Mitutoyos are a superb instruments, simply that 30 plus years after decimalisation BAE still has several old imperial measuring instruments hanging about.
How can the local car boot sales have thrived if BAE are hanging on to old tat
Shame they are out of the game though, real shame
In terms of manufacturing technology, BAE aren't out of the game by any means.
dr_gn said:
perdu said:
dr_gn said:
Mojocvh said:
http://www2.ppauctions.com/auction.php?thisPage=1&...
No matter what your take on Nimrod MR4 this really shows that the UK, as an aircraft manufacturing nation, is all but done in, and the trend will not be reversed.
Including or excluding the 4 snooker tables?No matter what your take on Nimrod MR4 this really shows that the UK, as an aircraft manufacturing nation, is all but done in, and the trend will not be reversed.
I can assure you, you wouldn't prevent the decline of any aerospance manufacturing capability worthy of the name by keeping any of that lot.
Not concerned about them being Mitutoyo though, my own Mitutoyos are a superb instruments, simply that 30 plus years after decimalisation BAE still has several old imperial measuring instruments hanging about.
How can the local car boot sales have thrived if BAE are hanging on to old tat
Shame they are out of the game though, real shame
In terms of manufacturing technology, BAE aren't out of the game by any means.
But I was surprised that they hadn't ditched them before, as you say, Nimrod era tat no longer needed on voyage.
I wouldnt mind a plasma cutter but I s'spect they need three phase power, shan't be bidding
Richjam said:
Probably so but most people convert imperial to metric these days unless your from the USA....
Although we always seem to talk in thou's when it comes to small measurements even though we measure in metric. Guess old habits die hard.
I'm bi-lingual, I work in both Imperial and Metric. But, in over thirty years in the construction game, I've only ever found people using metric in metres and millimetres, in fact the ONLY people that I've found that don't use metres and millimetres, but use centimetres, are TEACHERS!Although we always seem to talk in thou's when it comes to small measurements even though we measure in metric. Guess old habits die hard.
Get with the beat, Teach, and teach in what you're pupils will be using, if they're fortunate enough to find a job.
perdu said:
I'm more concerned that a state of the art-ish manufacturing aerospace company has ancient imperial 0-1" Mitutoyo micrometers to sell.
Ever thought that the "ancient" kit could be just that - sat in stores somewhere since ancient times? If its like other industries you're not allowed to dispose of build equipment until after the product is out of service.Ian Lancs said:
perdu said:
I'm more concerned that a state of the art-ish manufacturing aerospace company has ancient imperial 0-1" Mitutoyo micrometers to sell.
Ever thought that the "ancient" kit could be just that - sat in stores somewhere since ancient times? If its like other industries you're not allowed to dispose of build equipment until after the product is out of service.I may be daft
but not that blimmin daft
But I was a toolmaker for long before I enjoyed my recent career and I was quite capable of working with new kit and converting to metricality as were all my colleagues.
And this was '78
Build equipment? I would have thought that was the jigs and machine tooling
Which BAe got well wrong when they rebuilt the Nimmie's wings I understand. But which I am willing (and hopeful) that someone can tell me I'm misinformed. I am NOT inclined to slag off Brit industries automatically anyway, let alone the firm that built most of the aircraft I grew up loving.
Iwont be buying the plasma machine anyway, it should be used in a proper industrial, making stuff all day, scenario.
If I bought it I'd a: have no room for it and b: just show off with mates with it, wasting good steel [johncleese](I know my place)[/johncleese]
I work with an American factory so spend most of my days converting imperial to metric and vice versa, but I always try to make that conversion once, and only at the end when I'm doing the calculations, to avoid rounding errors; and I'd guess engineers would do something similar to avoid mistakes. So it's quite useful to have the imperial measuring stuff around.
mrmaggit said:
I'm bi-lingual, I work in both Imperial and Metric. But, in over thirty years in the construction game, I've only ever found people using metric in metres and millimetres, in fact the ONLY people that I've found that don't use metres and millimetres, but use centimetres, are TEACHERS!
Get with the beat, Teach, and teach in what you're pupils will be using, if they're fortunate enough to find a job.
I was told many years ago that the centimetre isn't recognised as a unit of distance measurement, not sure how true that is though.Get with the beat, Teach, and teach in what you're pupils will be using, if they're fortunate enough to find a job.
In 25 years of engineering i've never seen a drawing dimensioned in cm, in fact the only thing I can think of that is measured in centimetres is the volume of an internal combustion engine.
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