Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra...
by throwaway2037 on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:45PM
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I Googled this exact phrase: "Macdonnell history with FAA". Woah, that is quite a complex history. It is a good read for those unaware.
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Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra...
by eastbound on Saturday November 07, 2026 @10:22AM
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Macdonnell was bought by Boeing, and the legend says it's precisely this _expertise_ that Boeing bought. The Boeing self-burning batteries and wrongly-handcrafted airframes of 2013 are signature of Macdonnell's way of managing issues.