High-Flying Wireless Systems
Credit: Boeing Co., Marian Lockhart
Wireless technology holds the promise of efficiency, economy, light weight and low maintenance. It first delivered in the late 1990s. After a cargo bay fire downed a ValuJet DC-9 in 1996, the FAA required airlines to equip their fleets with systems to detect smoke and suppress fire. A hardwired...
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