Monday, December 7, 2009

The Tech That Makes New Airplanes And Runways Safer

Enhanced and synthetic vision systems (inset) blend GPS information with a topographical database to create a moving digital map of unseen terrain and hazards. (Photograph by Sam Chui)

From Popular Mechanics:

In our Anatomy of a Plane Crash feature, PM investigates the causes behind Air France 447's disappearance. Here are some of the advances in technology for airports, cockpits and airframes—systems that work in tandem to make air flight safer.

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