Word: radars
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...airline arrivals and 21% of departures were delayed from January to June of this year. With a growing number of passengers and more small jets crowding the skies, things will only get worse. Congress may be flyers' last hope. An estimated $22 billion proposal to replace the radar system with satellite communication could find more-direct routes...
...RADAR Doppler weather radars give details on a storm's wind change as it crawls closer to the coast, scanning once every six minutes (plane observations come in only once every few hours...
...simply grew up and started having babies. Just take a look at Prenzlauer Berg, an island of cool that may right now have the highest birth rate in all of Germany. The neighborhood was once was a refuge for East Berlin's communist-era bohemians communing beneath the radar of the dreaded Stasi secret police. Then, after the Berlin Wall fell, hipsters from the other side poured in to the district, opening cafes and night clubs on every corner...
With the gouge issue off the radar for now, NASA turned its attention to the next blip on the screen: Hurricane Dean, now pounding the islands of the Caribbean and drag-racing Endeavour toward the Gulf - right under the shuttle's landing-day flight path...
...NextGen, rather than radar, uses satellite technology to give the real-time position of a plane. That gives planes more flexibility to leave the designated flight path - or "highways in the sky," as Blakey calls them - and chart their own routes that are either more direct or that dodge a storm system. The end result is that flights on average would be shorter and fewer planes would have to be delayed or canceled because of bad weather...