Airline headset sockets

Dec 01, 2006 27 Replies

At least you won't be able to tear it up and throw it in the bin, which was the best thing about the paper version.

Oh yes. Sort of like Edvard Munch....

It talks a lot of sense. And gives real information.

90% of it is cack. Whinging about things that work the way they are designed is pointless. There is much that is wrong with Unix, but little of it is contained in the UHH.

And here, for Google/ Microsoft users, is the correct link:

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20 years ago I remember that they used a different arrangement where the connection was purely acoustic and the output was by two holes (approx 6mm diam) about 1/2" apart.

They did charge for the head sets, when I sat at the back, but not when I sat at the front.

This was with PanAm and a 747-100.

Later flying stock seems to always use electricity.

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it might have been had you not added "uk" to the end... :-)

Pan(demoni)Am. Those were the days.

Handing them out for free and collecting them at the end seems to be the current thinking. Even Virgin seems to do that, and generally they are into marketing handouts for the punters.

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