How 20,000 Pounds Of Potatoes Brought Wi-fi To Airplanes

Julie Bort, Business Insider
Wed, 12/19/2012 - 4:05pm

If you're flying somewhere this holiday season, you could be on a plane that offers Wi-Fi. And a good Wi-Fi connection on a plane flying 500 miles per hour at 35,000 feet was a particularly hard tech problem to solve, say the Boeing engineers who solved it. Packing a lot of people in a small space can interfere with radio signals like Wi-Fi.

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