Hey, everybody, Sean Duffy here. Obviously there's a lot of coverage right now about what's happening in Newark in the airspace. Wanted to talk about a couple things as background. So The air traffic control system that we use today is anywhere from 25 to 50 years old. We have copper wires, not fiber. We use radar that is, you know, 1983 vintage at the earliest. A lot of it's 1970, some of it even earlier than that. (00:14–00:21)
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