I will forever hold it against Boeing for using imperial in their engineering drawings, when almost every other aerospace company in the world uses metric. I ca

I will forever hold it against Boeing for using imperial in their engineering drawings, when almost every other aerospace company in the world uses metric. I cannot tell you how many hundreds of man hours I've seen spent by engineers and technicians, remaking designs and rebuilding prototypes to the correct dimensions. We once had something shipped to us on a pallet instead of the expected box, because the factory built a wiring harness to inches not centimeters.