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Old 8th Nov 2013, 19:30
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Originally Posted by levashov

Just have being watching old documentary about how to operate F6F Hellcat, and noticed that all gauges concerning temperatures measures in Celsius no F.
So the question is, why would pioneers of aviations US would switch their F measures onto C?
Just curious. Why would they made this headache for their pilots?
Небось что под рукой лежало то и ставили, а головные боли у тогдашних летчиков похлеще этой были.


Translation: they likely just installed whatever instruments they had on hand, and as for headaches, the pilots had bigger things to worry about.
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