Wonderful. It also means cell phones will crank up their power searching for a signal, and the passengers are sitting inside a microwave oven since the RF energy can't escape.
Thankfully there are alternative ways to fly. Bye, Said Sent From iPhone On Jun 2, 2014, at 8:45, Chris Albertson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 1:55 AM, Tom Van Baak <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> But last week I flew the new composite Boeing 787 Dreamliner and noticed >> something quite different. From the second I entered the plane, I lost both >> cell and GPS reception. It didn't matter how close I was to a window or >> not. > > > I bet this is nothing to do with carbon fiber vs. aluminum skin. Both > would have to be conductive. I bet it's the metal film on the windows. > The metal skin of the older planes would have been a perfect shield but > the windows let the signals in. But on the new plane the windows have a > conductive metal film. So I bet the difference is entirely because of the > change in window design. > > Even in buildings some "energy saving" windows have coatings that are > conductive and don't allow GPS to pass. > -- > > Chris Albertson > Redondo Beach, California > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
