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kortilla on May 19, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Technology that changed air travel

Are autopilots, ILS, etc not “real advancements”? How about the airbus fly by wire system? How about the computer systems that control the turbines on modern aircraft?

redis_mlc on May 19, 2020 [–]

I's kinda with starpilot on this one. The article was about booking systems, not aircraft systems.

Also, ILS itself is fairly primitive, as is anything prior to GPS. It was all more radio technology than computer technology.

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