Re: Re: [FT] Scale in Full Thrust

At 10:32 PM +0200 6/8/01, Oerjan Ohlson wrote:
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>Yes, you're right. I had the densities of balsa and birch mixed up :-(

A neat page on the densities of woods...

http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/ShirleyLam.shtml

>I'm a bit curious as to how Ryan got 70 metric tons to be 180,000 
>lbs though. As I recall, 1 metric ton is 1000 kg and 1 kg is 2.2 
>lbs, so the 70-ton Abrams only masses about 155,000 lbs (must be the 
>M1A2 SEP version though - the M1A1 is only 65 tons/145,000 lbs 
>IIRC?).

M1A2 is 80 tons, 160,000lbs. I've not done conversions like this in 
years so it was a bit difficult pulling those procedures from the 
depths of my brain. I was reading 160,000 lbs and transcribing 
140,000 or 180,000...It' would have helped had I been doing it on 
paper with a calculator instead of just keeping notes on the computer 
screen...

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