On 4/28/2020 9:02 PM, Phillip Matheson via KRnet wrote:
" WHY does the USA still use mph"
I asked an early bird who flew his first self-made airplane in 1910 that
question,
and he replied, "Because knots are for sailors and ropes". He had a
small FBO operation, but
ended it at the US entry into WWII when all civilian flight was
terminated, and passed
on many years ago. (Art Hartman, Burlington, Iowa) His airplane, a
Bleriot looking
machine is in a museum somewhere. I witnessed it on a brief flight at
some function
when a kid.
The probable reason for MPH is that it just made more sense to more
people at the time of
slow, light airplanes. Old guys like me still cling to MPH, gallons,
pounds, Fahrenheit, inches, feet and such
because we can relate, having begun with those terms.
George,
Phoenix
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