Net Neutrality: The end of Inflight Internet, or business as usual?

How will emerging inflight broadband comply with Net Neutrality?

Are spot beams better than wide beams for aviation?

Are spot beams better?

Skew Angle and Effective Aperture of an Airborne Antenna

Skew angle is a difficult concept to grasp, but the effect can be profound.

Low-profile antennas installed on the top of an airplane fuselage introduce special challenges.

Second generation antennas just entering the market sit flat, creating a change in gain and beamwidth as a function of the relative elevation of the target satellite.

Skew angle rotates the beam-pattern as shown above for various antenna types, at both zero and 90 degree skew.

Amazon Prime Air: If you can't beat them?

photo credit: Amazon

How can a UAV safely delivery packages?

Are the FAA UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) (or drone) rules taking too long and are they too restrictive?

It is not possible for an operator (remotely) to overcome all the risks of a UAV when overflying a community...

...since the failure we are concerned with most is loss of control.

Ka-band Airborne Antenna Figure of Merit (G/T)

Estimated Receive Performance

Circular and Square 24"x24" ESA

30"x6" rectangular horn array

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Ken Simmons, Ed Porisch, Peter Lemme,
Mary Nakasone (Sato), Dave Allen
QANTAS 747-400 FANS Certification Flight Test
June 19, 1995

Ku-band Airborne Antenna Figure of Merit (G/T)

Estimated Receive Performance

Circular and Square 30"x30" ESA

34"x7" rectangular horn array

Postcards from Apollo 15

Rain Fade