iPhone Hacks:

Apple’s official data on the use of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi point out that their range is about 30 feet. But pilots apparently buck that trend quite a bit, and in a big way.

User LouB747 posted a video recently to his YouTube channel, showing that he successfully used AirDrop from his plane, which was cruising at 35,000 feet, to a pilot in another plane, a Singapore Airlines craft cruising at 36,000 feet. The pilot was sending pictures of the plane in flight, and the other pilot, one thousand feet away at least, confirmed receipt of the images over the radio.

Is it just me or does anyone else think this shouldn’t have worked? I can barely get AirDrop to work between my Mac and iPhone when they are two feet from each other.

Thanks to Skeptic, here is an update:

Singapore Airlines told IBTimes UK that the AirDrop stunt definitely didn’t happen. “Our pilot was only replying in jest to the radio message from the captain of the other flight. Photos were exchanged by email later, however,” a spokesperson said.