The low terahertz band (0.1 THz -1 THz) offers very high data rates for novel mobile applications and constitutes a promising candidate to meet the requirements in aviation, enabling future wireless in-flight entertainment systems. An extensive knowledge of the propagation effects in the radio channel in complex scenarios is a prerequisite to successfully design a communication system. This paper presents a measurement campaign in a real aircraft investigating the radio channel at 300 GHz for different deployments of a wireless inflight entertainment system. The propagation effects as well as temporal and spatial channel characteristics are analyzed for likely communication links between an access point and a user equipment. In the same way, interference links between two user equipments are studied, reporting transmission and reflection losses for various components of the aircraft. A deterministic and geometry-based channel model is derived and extended to cover the effect of human blockage that suggests an integration of the access point into the passenger service unit. The measurement and realistic path loss models can be used in further link-and system level simulations and contribute to the design of future in-flight entertainment systems.
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