The only way to transfer the designs from his computer to the machine was via floppy disk. “We started with eight disks, but four of them stopped working, which made me very uneasy,” he says.

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A floppy disk might seem like a thing of the past, but the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) still uses them to manage flight. Here's why.

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Air traffic controllers also still use slips of paper containing flight numbers to help track the approximately 45,000 flights that the Federal Aviation Administration handles on a daily basis.

The only way to transfer the designs from his computer to the machine was via floppy disk. “We started with eight disks, but four of them stopped working, which made me very uneasy,” he says.

A floppy disk might seem like a thing of the past, but the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) still uses them to manage flight. Here's why.