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echo: alaska_chat
to: Jim Weiier and Bo Simonsen
from: Steven Horn
date: 2008-01-27 21:23:20
subject: Metric conversion

JIM WELLER (1:123/140) wrote to BO SIMONSEN at 22:17 on 24 Jan 2008:

 JW> It was a domestic Canadian flight; it happened a few years ago when
 JW> the metric system was first bring introduced here.

Jim and Bo,

Remember this was on a 1983 flight from Montreal to Edmonton and it had not
even gotten half way before running out of fuel.  I still look at this as
one of the more significant feats in the history of Canadian flying.

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven.horn{at}northwestel.net)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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