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Gogo Inc. is an American provider of in-flight broadband Internet service and other connectivity services for business aircraft, headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado. Through its Gogo LLC subsidiary, Gogo previously provided in-flight WiFi to 17 airlines until the Commercial Air business was sold to Intelsat for $400 million in December 2020 ...
In 1936, the airship Hindenburg offered passengers a piano, lounge, dining room, smoking room, and bar during the 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-day flight between Europe and America. [ 4 ] The post-WWII British Bristol Brabazon airliner was initially specified with a 37-seat cinema within its huge fuselage; this was later reduced to a 23-seat cinema sharing the ...
The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is the current record-holder for a crewed airbreathing jet aircraft. An air speed record is the highest airspeed attained by an aircraft of a particular class. The rules for all official aviation records are defined by Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), [1] which also ratifies any claims. Speed records ...
As mentioned above, the FAA allows the in-flight use of wireless devices but only after the airline has determined that the device will not interfere with aircraft communication or navigation. One report asserts [ 8 ] correlations between the use of mobile phones and other portable electronic devices in flight, and various problems with avionics .
Wi-Fi (/ ˈ w aɪ f aɪ /) [1] [a] is a family of wireless network protocols based on the IEEE 802.11 family of standards, which are commonly used for local area networking of devices and Internet access, allowing nearby digital devices to exchange data by radio waves.
Delta is launching new cabin-wide Bluetooth, improved inflight systems, and enhanced AI-powered customer experience tools in 2025 and 2026.
Originally called “Airborne Internet,” the “Internet” moniker was not received well internally by FAA management. The name of the FAA R&D Airborne Internet program was subsequently changed by Yost to “Airborne Networking.” The name changed appeased the FAA management and added synchronization to similar efforts by the U.S. military.
Bluetooth devices intended for use in short-range personal area networks operate from 2.4 to 2.4835 GHz. To reduce interference with other protocols that use the 2.45 GHz band, the Bluetooth protocol divides the band into 80 channels (numbered from 0 to 79, each 1 MHz wide) and changes channels up to 1600 times per second.