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The Engineer Who Stopped Airplanes From Flying Into Mountains

New submitter gmrobbins writes "The Seattle Times profiles avionics engineer Don Bateman, whose Honeywell lab in Redmond, Washington has for decades pioneered ground proximity warning systems. Bateman's innovations have nearly eliminated controlled flight into terrain by commercial aircraft, the most common cause of fatal airplane accidents."

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  1. Re:And yet somehow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Those rewards have all been banned by feminists and women over the past 150 years.

    There is nothing except money left.