Immediately struck me with the same question. North or South Carolina on the committee drafting the law? This is what is wrong with our government ... why hide this in an FAA bill unless there is something wrong about it?
Kudos to Delta for recognizing how this technology has become part of our everyday life. Cruise ships charge for wi-fi. For an awful lot of people it is like a utility, similar to electricity, and I resent paying their fees. Expecting the cruise ships to put meters in every room to charge for electricity soon!
As one of those old timers I can vouch that we had more than just slide rules ... we had our RCA computer in the Saturn and Mobile Launcher ... all 25k of it.
Lived under the flight path at Dulles in a house with a lot of sliding glass doors. The whole house would shake for about 2 minutes on landing or take off ... thank the lord it was not supersonic! They head a noise hot line just for the Concorde but that never helped. Still it was a beautiful aircraft and I'm glad I got to see it many times.
