May 17 2004
From The Space Library
Lufthansa became the world's first airline to provide its passengers with wireless broadband Internet access on a long-haul flight of an aircraft. The German airline company provided Boeing Connexion Internet service on a Boeing 747-400 airplane. The Internet service used a parabolic antenna extending 12 inches (30 centimeters) from the aircraft's exterior and capable of providing Internet services for airplanes flying in latitudes between 75° north and south. (Michael Mecham, “Ready to Download,” Aviation Week and Space Technology 160, no. 2 (22 March 2004): 48; Lufthansa, “High Tech above the Clouds,” Newslink Special, October 2004, 13, http://konzern.lufthansa.com/en/downloads/presse/newslink/newslink_2004_12/newslink_sp10.pdf (accessed 27 March 2009).
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