Whoops!! I hate to chime in off-topic but I consider this important. Most likely MCF means Thousand Cubic Feet. M is the Roman Numeral and is used with British Measures. MM would be used for Million Cubic Feet. K is the Greek letter for thousand and is used with metric measures. M would be used for Million Cubic Meters. Pat McNally Seattle 47.7 122.3 >One of the pages on their site includes this statement: "Today, >payloads weighing 5000 pounds are quite common and balloons of 20 >to 30 MCF are flown routinely." ("MCF" means million cubic feet, a >unit for measuring the volume of the [inflated] balloon.) I don't >have any idea how often "routinely" means. > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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