Stephane Cheikh, innovation manager for the aviation communications and technology company SITA, was using his laptop to demonstrate a new program that tracked travelers' movements based on the Wi-Fi-emitting Wi-Fi-emitting Wi-Fi-emitting
He said aviation safety and technology experts believed "there's still a decent chance of a fix that takes a couple of weeks" if the cause can be clearly identified.
Once heavily dependent on the oil industry, economic downturn and subsequent diversification efforts created an economic base in the energy, finance, aviation, telecommunications and technology sectors.
We should aim to be a leader in the green, sustainable and energy revolutions and to be at the forefront of global aviation and space technology.
What the public doesn't understand, he writes in "Fly by Wire," is the extent to which advances in aviation and digital technology have made pilots almost superfluous, perhaps even "the weak link in flight".
General Electric, meantime, is forging ahead with a 30 million euro investment to expand research and development in energy, aviation and medical technology in Germany — a nation G.E. considers a haven from the euro storm — and an additional 56 million euros to broaden its commercial presence.
Aviation and mobile technology experts had advised the FAA the rule change would be safe.
