[92860] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Boeing's Connexion announcement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Sun Oct 15 21:22:13 2006
Date: 16 Oct 2006 01:21:12 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <45329451.5070302@smashing.net>
Cc: mike@smashing.net
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>> In addition to all of the offered AC services others have mentioned,
>> some planes have power outlets for vacuum cleaners, typically behind a
>> small panel next to a door.
>
>ISTR, these AC sockets are "airplane flavour" 115VAC @ 400Hz.
No. it's 60 Hz. See this picture of one of the outlets.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/25645286/
and this page from Qantas web site
http://www.qantas.com.au/info/flying/inTheAir/communications
Don't you think that airlines would be smart enough not to install
power outlets that would destroy the equipment that the customers plug
into them?
