iPhone 4 Goes AWOL Out Of A U.S Air Force Aircraft
TUAW are reporting that they received an email from U.S. Air Force Combat Controller, Ron Walker describing how his iPhone 4 went AWOL last week, at 1,000 ft and survived. This is what happened…
Whilst leaning out from the aircraft while on duty last week, the velcro seal on one of Walker’s uniform pockets opened and with that his iPhone 4 flew out without even a second glance but without a parachute to soften the fall.
Fortunately, the Find My iPhone app had been installed on this iPhone and with the help of his fellow airmen Walker was able to locate the absconding iPhone 4. The amazing thing was it needed no medical attention, it was completely undamaged by the fall. The only suit it had on was a Griffin case and no additional body armor.
So, there you go, you may of seen and heard of plenty of iPhone glass smashes in the past but it just goes to show with the right type of fall the iPhone 4 can survive and might even make quite a useful guided bomb in the future.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]
