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Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra... by alt227 on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:00AM (#50394033)
> The greatest nation in the world deserves a state-of-the-art air traffic control system, and under President Trump, we’re delivering just that

They are signalling Trumps involvement so I will assume it must be another vanity project he wants to stamp his name on. I look forward to hundreds of grounded planes due to cloud based weather reporting not being available because of a borked server update or misconfigured wifi adapter.

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Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra... by creaturemachine on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:02AM (#50394085)
They'll just switch to gold floppies
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Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra... by stevep98 on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:19AM (#50394367)
> You can track the progress of the Brand New Air Traffic Control System (BNATCS) by state and airport on our Modern Skies website.

Another trump tell… Lame acronym.

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Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra... by 1-more on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:40AM (#50394710)
Initialism. If this were the neocon era it'd be an awkward shoehorned acronym like SKYHAWK or something though.
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