It may seem incredible, but the giant Boeing 747 is still using the old-fashioned floppy disk to update its software. And it's unlikely to change. Here's why.

Despite the age of the technology, these floppy disks have proven to still be effective at the expense of speed. The Verge reports that Boeing’s more modern aircraft like the 777X, 787, and 737 ...

Read how the floppy disk still has some use in several important industries despite being deemed obsolete. ... Considering a 747 jumbo jet can hold as many as 524 passengers, ...

The floppy disks are used to load navigational databases which need to be updated regularly, every 28 days. Engineers responsible for loading updates must perform the process manually on the ground.

The floppy disk is used as a navigation database loader and it needs to be updated every 28 days, manually. So, imagine there's an engineer who's job is to visit each Boeing 747-400 and manually ...

A tour of a recently retired British Airways Boeing 747-400 has revealed that the plane was using 3.5-inch floppy disks to keep its navigation databases up to date.

British Airways and a few other airlines that operate the Boeing 747-400 still update the aging jumbo jet's avionics ... which requires three floppy disks to function on DOS. Yes, DOS. Latest; ...

Paper strips, floppy disks, and 1940’s tech: Let’s modernize our air traffic system ... The U.S. still relies on outdated, decades-old technology to maneuver jumbo jets.

The VHD makes the 3.5-inch floppy look like a disk for ants. "Big" doesn't do it justice. ... the VHD probably looks like a comically jumbo cardboard Best Buy standee.

New storage systems, coupled with a need to store more than the 1.44 megabytes of data held by a standard floppy, have led to its demise. Only a tiny percentage of PCs currently sold still have floppy ...