[92862] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Re: Boeing's Connexion announcement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (micky coughes)
Sun Oct 15 21:49:35 2006
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 21:48:43 -0400
From: "micky coughes" <coughes@gmail.com>
To: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20061016012112.89084.qmail@simone.iecc.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
What time does the 4:20 flight take off?
On 16 Oct 2006 01:21:12 -0000, John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
>
> >> 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/
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> and this page from Qantas web site
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> 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?
>
>
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