Filed under: iPod Family
iPod doubles as flight data recorder
If you're in the market for a small plane (and really, who isn't in the market for a small plane?) perhaps this news will help you choose: American manufacturer LoPresti will allow the iPod to serve as a flight data recorder in the Fury two-seater. This is "flight data recorder" in the sense of "performance and location information for post-flight review," not in the sense of "black box intended to survive a crash for forensic analysis." Not that there aren't a few iPod cases that have the look of armor plating...Thanks Gordon!
[via flightglobal.com]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Rob Olliges said 9:22AM on 2-23-2007
The LoPresti Fury has other Apple connections too. RJ Siegel, the Fury's business manager, used to work at Apple and was a part of the original Macintosh design team.
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Roberto said 2:39PM on 2-23-2007
Good luck getting Apple to release any information helpful for the development of 3rd party applications. As it is now, they haven't helped the iPodLinux community one single bit.
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JeffDM said 7:36PM on 2-23-2007
Is it just a data storage system? That's not hard. If they wanted a way to use the iPod to display any of that data, then that's hard, unless it's just text.
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Steve said 8:02AM on 2-24-2007
This is just a PR stunt. Before it can fly, it has to be FAA certified and there's NO WAY Apple will cooperate with these folks.
These guys have a dubious background of PR stunts.
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