Rockwell will be producing the backbone communications, cockpit displays, pilot controls, weather radar and collision-avoidance systems for an estimated 1, 775 Dreamliners.

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The doctor sits in a lead-lined cockpit, in a comfortable chair, and remotely controls the robotic system as it implants the balloon or stent catheters into the patient.

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Ferry was involved in a mid-air drama after Christmas this year when a man burst into the cockpit of a flight he was on from London to Nairobi, and attempted to seize the controls.

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But while a typical cockpit may have a hundred or so switches, a single Linux server has hundreds of config files with thousands of controls.

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