Category: EJets
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Dragging the competition
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in antenna, E175, EJets, electronically steered antenna, electronically steered phased array, ESA, IFC, IFEC, In Flight, in-flight connectivity, in-flight internet, in-flight wifi, inflight connectivity, inflight wifi, Intelsat, LEO, Low Earth Orbit, OneWeb, PAC, Panasonic Avionics, Panasonic Avionics Corporation, phased array, PremCat, regional jet, Satellite, Stellar Blu, Thinkom, TravelWritten by Seth Miller @ PaxEx.Aero Bolting a radome atop an aircraft means more weight, more drag, more fuel burn, and higher emissions. Those are all things airlines typically try to minimize. Which makes some recent conversations about drag differences all the more interesting.