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It turns out that some parts of the aviation industry are not as modern as one might think.
A tour by a recently retired British Airways Boeing 747-400 has revealed that the aircraft used 3.5-inch floppy disks to keep its navigation databases up to date.
“This database needs to be updated every 28 days so you can see how much of a task this must be for an engineer to visit,” said Alex Lomas, an aviation specialist with Pen Test Partners – a UK-based cybersecurity company – in a video jet of the commercial jet.
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British Airways recently announced that its fleet of Boeing 747-400 aircraft, affectionately known as “The Queen of the Skies”, is likely to have flown its last planned commercial service.
“After nearly five decades of service and millions of miles flying around the world, it is proposed that the remaining fleet of the airline of 31 747-400 retired aircraft will be affected immediately as a result of the devastating impact that the Covid “19 pandemic has hit the airline and aviation sector, which is not predicted to recover to levels from 2019 to 2023/24,” British Airways said in a statement on July 17.
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A British Airways Boeing 747 jumbo jet takes off from Los Angeles International Airport in 2010. (iStock)
Described as “fuel hungry”, the planes were gradually phased out as they reached the end of their working lives, according to British Airways.
FOX Business has reached out to British Airways with a request for comment.
