Crossposted from The Centerline

Flight Bag

If NASA’s newest technology to increase airline efficiency and reduce air traffic delays eventually takes flight, remember that King County International Airport/Boeing Field played a small role in helping it go mainstream.

How? By hosting one of the coolest games of “Follow the Leader” we’ve ever seen.

NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate is in the Northwest testing airborne flight deck interval management software. That’s a mouthful, but basically it’s technology that can help pilots better space their approaches into airports so air traffic controllers and airlines can pinpoint when planes will land, literally to within a few seconds. It’s part of a series of flights known as Air Traffic Management Technology Demonstration, or ATD-1 in NASA speak.

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