On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Tony Barry wrote:
|=>From Edupage, 24 September 1998
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|=JETSON-LIKE COMMUNICATIONS AIRCRAFT
|=A new aircraft called High Altitude Long Operation-Proteus is designed to
|=circle for hours some 50,000 feet high over major cities, functioning like a
|=communications relay satellite does in space and carrying broadband wireless
|=services, including high-speed Internet access and video-teleconferencing.
|=A region might receive 24-hour service from a fleet of three planes, each
|=flown by two-man crews on eight-hour shifts, with each aircraft flying fixed
|=patterns providing coverage to an area 75 miles in diameter. Industry
|=analyst Jeffrey Kagan says, "I knew it wouldn't be too long before the
|=Jetsons became reality. In the next several years, you will see truckloads
|=of methods for delivering high speed methods of data to homes and offices."
|=(San Jose Mercury News 23 Sep 98)
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