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But there was a serious purpose to their work as in-flight Wi-Fi on many flights can have patchy signal strength. Airlines and aircraft makers have been striving to improve this with the growing use of wireless devices 35,000 feet (10,700m) up. It ...
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But there was a serious purpose to their work as in-flight Wi-Fi on many flights can have patchy signal strength. Airlines and aircraft makers have been striving to improve this with the growing use of wireless devices 35,000 feet (10,700m) up. It ...
Boeing Used 20000 lbs of Potatoes to Test Its In-Flight WiFi (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNHuAzaU8aRxjhc3Mu0uCdvMmtU5Vg&url=http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/12/boeing-used-20-000-lbs-of-potatoes-to-test-its-in-flight-wifi/266509/)The Atlantic
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Boeing Uses Potatoes to Improve Inflight Wi-Fi (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNHi5K8rhgXEzEhgmwiGIfuhc8BAEQ&url=http://www.wired.com/autopia/2012/12/boeing-inflight-wifi-testing/)Wired (blog)
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