HP to Watts

Richard, nearly everything in the aero- portion of the aerospace industry
is in english units.  Altitude is in feet, velocity is in mph or fps, fuel
is in pounds, and engines are horsepower or pounds of thrust.  The only
major aeronautical sector that uses metric is (was?) the Soviets.

But, here's a handy way to remember how to do hp <==> W conversions:

     In fourteen hundred and ninety two,
     Columbus sailed the ocean blue;
     Divide the son of a bitch by two,
     and you get the number of Watts in a horsepower.

(For the mathematically or poetically disinclined, 1492/2 = 746
which is about how many Watts are in 1 horsepower, 745.7 is exact)
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John H. Kim
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