Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Traffic Control as Part of Ongoing Modernization Effort Deployment of Brand New Air Traffic Control Continues at Record Pace:
https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/trumps-transportation-secretary-sean-p-duffy-begins-retiring-decades-old-floppy-disks-airThursday, November 5, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy today announced the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is continuing its historic modernization of America’s air traffic control system by replacing outdated floppy disks that contain vital weather and other critical information with a streamlined, 21st-century system.
Flights slowly resume after US aviation agency lifts nationwide ground stop:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/13/faa-nationwide-ground-stop-flightsTransportation secretary Sean Duffy says the airspace is now open and the problem has been identified.
Actually, one of their floppy disk drives stopped working and they had to shut down the system until they could scrounge a replacement on eBay.
I can just imagine one of their computer operators sticking a 5.25" diskette in an optical drive tray.