Airborne user manuals

Love this factoid from The New York Times:

 
United Airlines said on Tuesday that it would give iPads to the 11,000 pilots who fly United and Continental Airlines planes.  The new iPads are being labeled electronic flight bags, or E.F.B., and the airline said they would completely replace the pilot’s paper flight manuals.

Really love this factoid:

 
Removing the additional weight on planes will also save United 326,000 gallons of jet fuel a year, or 3,208 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions, the airline said.

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