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Old 02-11-2013 | 05:26 AM
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From: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp

They stopped putting IFE in the 73Ns as well. Yet they continue to be utilized on the longer segments. There are other things at play, I suspect.
Got no idea what is up, but one of our 737's was used as a testbed for wireless internet technology block to block. During recurrent there was mention made of seeing a few extra antennae.

I imagine we might be looking at a next gen IFE / Internet / Comm / Flight Bag concept.

A tablet would be a lot cheaper and more upgradeable than the Panasonic system.