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From the reason behind turning your phone to airplane mode to why your blinds have to be up during take off; if there are interesting facts about plane travel, we want to know about them. The latest trivia doing the round revolves around ashtrays, and why airplanes still have them. ...
Posted on Sep 12, 2024 Contrail clouds from passing jet planes streak the sky over the Utah desert. Credit:Tonywestphotovia Getty Images If you’ve ever looked up at a mostly blue sky and seen straight white lines criss-crossing the horizon, or watched a plane puff out a plume as it ...
It’s possible that once the FCC is convinced all the kinks are worked out with cellular tech, the agency might relax its rules on using phones in airplane mode. However, in that eventuality, expect the FAA to step up enforcement of the disruptions that it may cause in-flight. ...
The agency first prohibited the use of cellular phones on airborne aircraft in 1991. That same year, the FAA mirrored the move by issuing its own rules that banned the use of most portable electronic devices on planes. As phones got more complicated, airplane mode was born as a way to ...
Is it a sexy airplane? Maybe not. But does that matter? The other day there was a topic that one of the regular contributors responded to. This is a bloke who, based on his past posts, reminds me of Jamie fromMythBusters; a very smart, slightly humorless and incredibly literal fellow ...
Airplane mode or flight mode is a setting available on most electronic devices, such as eReaders and smartphones, which suspends many of the device's signal transmitting functions. So why are we still asking passengers to completely power down all electronic devices before take-off and landing,...
it entered a storm, vanished from air control systems, and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. It took more than 2 years for the wreckage to be found, along with the information it held about what went wrong. So why don't planes just send out flight recorder data constantly throughout a fl...
As electric cars and trucks appear increasingly on U.S. highways, it raises the question: When will commercially viable electric vehicles take to the skies? There are a number of ambitious efforts to build electric-powered airplanes, includingregional jetsand planes that can coverlonger distances....
The odds of catching Covid-19 on an airplane are slimmer than you think, scientists say Procedures to enable the two aircraft to coordinate their position will be tested – much like during an aerial refueling mission. “We need to make sure we can do the joining safely. We will have no...