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December 21, 2012 12:36 am GMT

Boeing Used 20,000 Pounds of Potatoes to Test Its In-Flight Wi-Fi


How do you ensure an even distribution of Wi-Fi throughout an airplane's cabin as that cabin moves through the air at 35,000 feet and 500 mph?

When engineers at Boeing attempted to test different Wi-Fi system designs, they needed to either stock the plane full of warm human bodies or find something else to use in their place. The answer? Potatoes -- 20,000 pounds of them. In a press release, the company called the spuds, quote, "ideal stand-ins for passengers," whose presence shapes the way Wi-Fi pings around the plane's cabin.

"The vegetables' interactions with radio-wave signals mimic those of the human body," a video from Boeing explains. The spuds were, quote, "ideal stand-ins for…
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