Phones in Airplanes

Communications companies are attempting to instal their new device, "pico cell," which would enable passengers in airplanes to make phone calls throughout a flight. The pico cell is a cellular antenna believed that if installed in airplanes would allow about 100 passengers to use their cell phones at the same time. "Because of the pico-cell technology, which has been successfully demonstrated with calls to and from an American Airlines flight and Boeing's recent long-distance record-setting 777 trip, the FCC has dropped its objection to using cellphones on airplanes." However, studies are still raising questions regarding whether the use of mobile phones would be safe for the airplanes.

"The problem with using cellphones on airplanes is that the devices can
interfere with Global Positioning Satellite systems, researchers say. These
systems are increasingly being used on commercial airplanes for navigation.
Interference could cause an airplane to lose the GPS signal or even make a
flight veer off course."

Nevertheless, it is up to the Federal Aviation Administration to come up with its own decision.

Aviation is a newly invented type of transportation, even though plans of it go back to Icarus in the pre-historic times. "The Wright Brothers are commonly credited with the invention of the aircraft, but like Alexander Graham Bell's telephone, theirs was rather the first sustainable and well documented attempt." Their first successful flight was made On Decemeber of 1903. However many attempts had already been made previously, especially the German man Karl Jatho tho made his first flight in August of the same year. Merelly a hundred year following the beginning of successful flight attempts, people are already contemplating on whether to enable cell phone usage in them, whose history only goes back to about 20-30 years ago.