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Tag Archives: navigators
The Looming GPS and Smartphone Wars
Yesterday, this blog dealt with the situation of the Federal Communications Commission approving LightSquared’s proposal to place a new wireless system into service requiring some 40,000 towers throughout the country. What LightSquared and the FCC neglected or overlooked was the … Continue reading →
Posted in Aviation, Flying, Life in General
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Tagged 40000 base stations, 66 members of Congress writing a letter to the FCC, anglers, aviators, current GPS satellite system, drivers, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, FCC International Bureau, FCC International Bureau Chief Mindel De La Torre, FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology, frequency band and power output, Garmin, General William Shelton, GPS Industry Council, GPS LG4 and Government Woes, LightSquared, navigators, new 4G technologies, Philip Falcone, problems with 4G interference, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, refund of $1 billion, significant measured degradation in aviation GPS units Harbinger Capital Partners, surveyors, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), The Looming GPS and Smartphone Wars, Trimble, US Air Force Space Command, wholesale 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) wireless broadband communications network, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, “Experimental Evidence of Wide Area GPS Jamming That Will Result from LightSquared’s Proposal to Convert Portions of L Band 1 to High Power Terrestrial Broadband”
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GPS, LG4, and Government Woes
Something in the industries and the government is not quite right. Something’s up. Last January, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) waived their own rules to shotgun an approval through the system for LightSquared, an emerging company in the new 4G … Continue reading →
Posted in Aviation, Flying, Life in General
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Tagged 40000 base stations, 66 members of Congress writing a letter to the FCC, Air Force, airplanes, anglers, aviators, current GPS satellite system, drivers, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, FCC International Bureau, FCC International Bureau Chief Mindel De La Torre, FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology, flying, frequency band and power output, Garmin, General William Shelton, GPS Industry Council, GPS LG4 and Government Woes, inexperienced pilots, instrument flying, LightSquared, navigators, new 4G technologies, Philip Falcone, problems with 4G interference, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, refund of $1 billion, significant measured degradation in aviation GPS units Harbinger Capital Partners, surveyors, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Trimble, US Air Force Space Command, wholesale 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) wireless broadband communications network, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, “Experimental Evidence of Wide Area GPS Jamming That Will Result from LightSquared’s Proposal to Convert Portions of L Band 1 to High Power Terrestrial Broadband”
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Mankind’s Greatest Navigational Achievement
Traveling from one place on the earth to another is a phenomenal accomplishment. To get from one place on the globe, precisely to a predetermined destination against incredible odds is, in a word, amazing. How were we able to get … Continue reading →
Posted in Aviation, Aviation History, Flying, Life in General
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Tagged Apollo 13, Apollo spacecraft, Christopher Columbus, flying, Fred W. Haise, Hawaii, Houston, James A. Lovell, judgment, Mankind’s Greatest Navigation Achievement, Marquesas Islands, modern navigational instruments, navigators, October 12 1492, Palos de la Frontera, slide rules, the Niña, the Pinta, the Polynesians, the Santa Maria, trans-Pacific crossings, “hand-flying”
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The Mighty Eighth
If you are driving down to Florida along Interstate 95, you might see something amazing near Savannah, GA. As long as you are not sleeping, it is hard to miss the Boeing B-47 Stratojet parked next to the highway. The … Continue reading →
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Tagged aviation memorabilia, aviation museum, Boeing B-47 Stratojet, bombardiers, Brigadier General Ira C. Eaker, Bull Street, clerks, cooks, England, Florida, gunners, Hunter Field, Interstate 95, mechanics, National Guard Armory, navigators, Pearl Harbor, pilots, prisoners of war, Savannah GA, stories, The Eighth Bomber Command, The Medal of Honor, The Mighty Eighth, The Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum
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