AIRBORNE NETWORK TAKES "WIRELESS" TO NEW HEIGHTS.

Reports on the launch of an airborne local area network (LAN) by the U.S. Armed Forces. Significance of the network for leaders to access information from their home stations; Design of the LAN to provide users aboard the Speckled Trout access to classified and unclassified Web sites and connection to their home-station networks while in flight; Goal of the developers to make a network infrastructure small enough to carry on any executive aircraft in a small suitcase.