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manrow

26th Jan 2012 19:35

Delta re-routing polar flights to Asia due sunspots

The British press has been reporting this today. My recollections (20 years on since I retired) are that solar activity caused communication problems on HF and that was about it. Have modern navigation systems and perhaps satellites succumbed to interference too?

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