Boeing Uses 20,000 Lbs. of Potatoes To Check Aircraft Wireless Network Signals 104
coondoggie writes "Boeing calls it Project SPUDS — or rather, Synthetic Personnel Using Dielectric Substitution — that is, using sacks of potatoes perched on aircraft seats to test the effectiveness of wireless signals in an airliner cabin. Boeing said it was researching an advanced way to test wireless signals in airplanes and needed a way to effectively simulate 200-300 people sitting in seats throughout the aircraft."
So (Score:5, Funny)
So did they do this test in their labs, or at a Five Guys?
coincidence (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So (Score:4, Funny)
Five Guys usually makes me test my lab.
I hope they used the 50-ohm potatoes (Score:5, Funny)
cause if they used the 75-ohm ones, their Starch Wave Ratio may be too high.
oh, and they have to be properly grounded. potatoes have experience in this area, so that's not usually a problem.
Re:coincidence (Score:5, Funny)
"I took a spud, out to a see an EMI test... (Score:4, Funny)
...and didn't have to pay
to
get
it
IN!"
(oldie but goodie?)
Re:Extra large sacks of potatoes (Score:4, Funny)
Imagine a spherical potato....
Re:Irish joke (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, fries are made from potatoes.
Not if you go to mcdonalds.
Harry Chapin (Score:4, Funny)
It was just after dark when the plane started down
The airspace that leads into Scranton, Pennsylvania
Carrying Twenty Thousand Pounds
Of potatoes.
Carrying twenty thousand pounds
(hit it Big John)
Oooooof Potatoooooes
And if the potatoes get fried... (Score:5, Funny)
...you know the wifi signal was too strong
Legless (Score:5, Funny)
Sacks of potatoes can form a mostly human shape
Only if you ignore the legs...which would also explain how they estimate the legroom to provide in economy seats.
Re:coincidence (Score:2, Funny)
If Boeing covered the sacks in lard and flew them to Florida, half of 'em would be married within a week and the rest would be cops.