Phones’ functions go far beyond making calls these days. Here’s the basics on why you can use some features and not others – and why planes may someday soon be filled with passengers yakking on phones.
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On Sept. 30, 1968, the first Boeing 747 rolled off the assembly line, ready to hit the skies as the biggest commercial jet at the time. Some 55 years later, the last one has left its factory.
The UK’s alcohol problems aren’t limited to high streets – so why are airports allowed to flout the rules?
Over the last three decades, the number of US pilots has decreased by 30 percent. That problem is only going to get worse as demand increases.
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Professor/Head of Aviation, CQUniversity Australia
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Professor of History, University of Dayton
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Assistant Director, Center for Aviation Studies, The Ohio State University
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Professor of Public Health Research, Co-Director of Crime and Security Research Institute and Director of the Violence Research Group, Cardiff University
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Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Professor in Fatigue Management and Sleep Health/Associate Dean, Research, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Regents Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Executive Director, Oklahoma Aerospace Institute for Research and Education, Oklahoma State University
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Lecturer in Communications, Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria