Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Sunday, June 29th.

Today on Forbes, why the U.S. should copy Canada to fix its broken air traffic control

system.

In May, to rally support for a massive infusion of funding to fix the troubled U.S. air traffic

control system, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy staged a public horror show

of the Federal Aviation Administration's outdated technology.

It included 1980s zombies like floppy disks, bulky monitors,

and a favorite prop for those who have been pushing for improvements for decades,

paper flight strips.

You might ask, what is a paper flight strip?

At most U.S. air traffic control towers, when a new plane is about to enter its airspace,

they're handled exactly the same as in the 1970s in one key way. A printer spits out a strip of paper

with the call sign of the flight and other information.

Controllers arrange the flight strips on a board, scribbling notes and moving them around to help choreograph the complicated ballet of planes in the sky.

Canada switched over completely to a computerized system 16 years ago, with great success.

Some say our neighbor to the north is a model for how the U.S. could better go about

modernizing its hopelessly outdated air traffic control systems.

The Trump administration's fix is more money.

Duffy has called for Congress to give the FAA tens of billions more to accelerate its modernization

programs, claiming upgrades can be

accomplished in three years that had previously been budgeted to take as long as 15 years.

Bob Poole, a transportation policy graybeard at the Reason Foundation, argued that more money

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