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Boeing SPUDs improving Wi-Fi on airplanes
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 7:33 PM
Updated Wednesday, Dec 19 at 10:55 PM
Boeing calls it the SPUD test. It stands for “Synthetic Personnel Using Dielectric Substitution" - a fancy way of saying, we used potatoes to stand in for people in radio testing.
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