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BOSTON – While blockchain may never be a panacea for solving all business transaction problems, it will eventually become a foundational technology across industries that will lead to new business models.
Before that can happen, however, proprietary blockchains will have to run their course and be replaced by open software and industry standards that enable distributed ledgers to communicate across competing businesses and borders, according to Dale Chrystie, a FedEx business fellow and blockchain strategist.
“Some years from now, I think it’s a foundational layer under everything,” Chrystie said during the Enterprise Blockchain Summit here this week. “Twenty year ago, you put the word ‘internet’ in front of everything and now you don’t. Today, we’re putting the word ‘blockchain’ in front of everything and I don’t think we’re going to in the future; it’s just going to be the way it works.”
IDGDale Chrystie, a FedEx business fellow and blockchain strategist, called for industry collaboration around blockchain.
Essentially, blockchain can be an open, transparent electronic ledger able to remove the middleman – a central bank or a corporate supply chain database – and that will fundamentally change the way businesses transact, Chrystie said.
Combined with artificial intelligence and IoT sensors, a blockchain tracking system can accurately trace the origins of products and verify the authenticity of everything from produce to plane
Article source: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3402037/fedex-exec-blockchain-will-become-a-foundational-layer-for-everything.html
The cockpit, by contrast, was equipped with four pressurized-oxygen masks linked to hours of supply. Whoever depressurized the airplane would have simply had to slap one on. The airplane was moving fast. On primary radar it appeared as an unidentified blip approaching the island of Penang at nearly 600 miles an hour. The mainland nearby is home to Butterworth Air Base, where a squadron of Malaysian F-18 interceptors is stationed, along with an air-defense radar—not that anyone was paying attention. According to a former official, before the accident report was released last summer, Malaysian air-force officers demanded to review and edit it. In a section called “Malaysian Military Radar,” the report provides a timeline suggesting that the air-defense radar had been actively monitored, that the military was well aware of the identity of the aircraft, and that it purposefully “did not pursue to intercept the aircraft since it was ‘friendly’ and did not pose any threat to national airspace security, integrity and sovereignty.” The question of course is why, if the military knew the airplane had turned around and was flying west, it then allowed the search to continue for days in the wrong body of water, to the east.
For all its expensive equipment, the air force had failed at its job and could not bring itself to admit the fact. In an Australian television interview, the former Malaysian defense minister said, “If you’re not going to shoot it down, what’s the point in sending [an interceptor] up?” Well,
Article source: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/mh370-malaysia-airlines/590653/
Article source: https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/20/middleeast/iran-drone-claim-hnk-intl/index.html
The Model Association of Central Kansas (MACK) is having a “fun fly” from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, July 13, at the Roger Brining Model Airfield, located at U.S. 56 and Railroad Ave.
The public may participate in actual flying using the club model and a “buddy box.”
Food will be available. All donations and proceeds from food sales go to “Relay for Life.”
Article source: https://www.gbtribune.com/news/local-news/model-airplane-fun-fly-to-raise-money-for-relay-for-life/
Infants and toddlers on airplanes are safest in a car seat with a harness, in case of turbulence. A child who rides in a car seat on the ground should ride in that car seat on a plane. Air turbulence can be dangerous and can appear suddenly without warning.
Not all car seats can fit on standard airplane seats, which are typically about 16 inches wide, but Safe Kids Carroll County and the Federal Aviation Administration strongly recommend using a car seat if it fits. As in cars, babies under 2 years old are best restrained in a rear-facing car seat, and a forward-facing car seat can protect toddlers up to 40 pounds or more. Make sure your child’s car seat is labeled “certified for use in motor vehicles and aircraft.”
You need your child’s car seat to travel to and from the airport anyway, and car rental companies might not have reliable car seats available. Your kids are better off in their own car seats.
Children who have outgrown car seats should sit directly on the airplane seat and, like all passengers, keep the lap belt buckled across their thighs or hips. Booster seats cannot be used on airplanes, because they require shoulder belts and airplane seats have only lap belts.
The FAA advises travelers with small children to reserve a pair of seats by a window. Car seats are not allowed in aisle seats
Article source: https://www.carrollcountytimes.com/columnists/features/health/cc-lt-safe-kids-070719-story.html
Photograph by Nicolas Castillo / EyeEm
The aerospace industry is vast (in 2018, revenues were US$838 billion), complex, and interconnected — and growing rapidly. Demand for new commercial aircraft may reach approximately 40,000 planes over the next 20 years. As they expand, the companies that manufacture, operate, and service aircraft are seeking out AI, 3D printing, and other capabilities, technologies, and tools that will allow them to optimize performance. There’s another cutting-edge technology they should consider: blockchain.
What does blockchain, most closely associated in the public mind with cryptocurrencies, have to do with the process of moving 250-ton machines through the air? Simply put, what the aerospace industry doesn’t know about its planes is costing it serious money. Having a more accurate view of a plane’s configuration and maintenance history could help reduce costs and losses, boost asset availability and increase the value of planes in the secondary market and at the end of leases, and improve worker productivity. And blockchain has some unique attributes that will enable it to serve as a powerful tool for the industry. PwC analysis has found that efficiency gains enabled by blockchain could increase industry revenue by as much as 4 percent annually, or $40 billion, while cutting maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) costs by about 5 percent annually, or $3.5 billion. So it’s not surprising that nearly a quarter (24 percent) of aerospace and defense executives who participated in PwC’s fall 2018 Digital Trust Insights Survey said blockchain
Article source: https://www.strategy-business.com/article/How-blockchain-can-improve-the-aviation-industry?gko=9e976
