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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."
yep he will engineer till about age 40 then be replaced by a work visa from India or China, and wont even get a gold watch as he is booted out of the door
sorry? whats the incentive? save lives? phht, only the planes that never hit mountains will be able to afford this crap once the suits get hold of it, meanwhile crop dusters will still be left out, sort of like how my cousins father (not my uncle ... one of those stories) died a couple years back