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Fly-by-Wireless Plane Takes to the Sky

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the dropped-connection-a-real-bummer dept.

galactic_grub writes to tell us that engineers in Portugal have built and flown a plane with no wires or mechanical connections between the major systems, only a wireless network. From the article: "Tests flights carried out in Portugal have shown that the system works well. Cristina Santos, at Minho University in Portugal, who developed the plane, says the aim is primarily to reduce weight and power requirements. 'Also, if you do not have the cables then the system is much more flexible to changes,' she says."

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  1. Re:Holy Crap! by DrEldarion · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Nope! Not politically correct!

    In fact, you can't even make observations about groups of people, lest you get labelled racist. It doesn't matter if you even have studies to back them up - the entire study will be labelled racist.

  2. Re:Holy Crap! by PFI_Optix · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    No wonder there's a shortage of humor on television lately. There aren't a lot of dumb Texans left :)

    Serious stuff: Best high school in America is in Dallas, Texas public schools are considered the best in the nation, rising IQ scores in spite of large poor immigrant population, et cetera

    Oh, and before someone says it, Dubya is NOT a Texan and was not educated in Texas. He's a product of the northeast.

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    120 characters for a sig? That's bloody useless.