Who'd have thought that I'd wake up this morning to a nice flame war on the
piclist which apparently I started by simply referring to thrust in units of
kg. Now I know why I love this place.

Incidentally the manufacturer of the ducted fan I'm using themselves quote
the thrust in grams:

http://oos.modelengines.com.au/command/servlet/Command?command=display_item_pub&pkey=meng&itemid=HIM-DF96

Sloppy use of units is pretty common in the R/C world. I'm not going to try
to justify it. In the end it's all about the most effective form of
communication for the medium. Let's face it - even Olin knew what I meant
and he's the one who made the fuss in the first place. If I'd given the
thrust in Newtons how many people would have taken the time to think it
through? Of course if I'd been writing a formal spec rather than a casual
email I'd probably have expressed it differently.

Cheers,
Zik
PS. I bet James is glad he un-moderated Olin
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