21、Aviation Engineering Adventures: From Flight Tracking to In - Flight Surveillance

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Aviation Engineering Adventures: From Flight Tracking to In - Flight Surveillance

1. The Flight Tracking Initiative

In 2015, I received a call from Mac, an old acquaintance. Mac had sold his 747s and was now the CEO of a company building electronic devices for oil wells. These devices measured various parameters at oil wells, recorded the data, received GPS time and position information, and sent this data via the Iridium satellite to a ground station for cloud storage.

The impetus for his visit was the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in 2014. Mac had a brilliant idea: to build a device in the shape of an aircraft window. This device would have two antennas and a processor unit. One antenna would receive GPS position and time signals, sto