The Pentagon's budget is being trimmed for the first time since 1998, but that hasn't stopped the Air Force from placing a request for as many as 18,000 iPad 2s. According to Bloomberg News, the devices would "lighten the load of flight crews," who have to lug navigation charts and paper-bound manuals that can weigh as much as 40 pounds. Will we finally see pilots playing Fruit Ninja in those Air Force promos?
"The airline industry is way ahead of us on this," a spokesperson for the Air Force's Air Mobility Command says, referring to a sector that still uses planes with ashtrays in them and has yet to convert to GPS. The people who assemble iPads couldn't be reached for comment, but surely they were thrilled at the news.
