Boeing is currently working hard to keep you connected during the dead air you now experience during flight. Seattlest, personally, is gratefull for the one window of opportunity we have to turn off our cell phones. Not muted. Not vibrate only. Off. Man, is that sweet. Boeing, don't take away our in-flight naps. They're all we have left.

Those naps will probably be going the way of the rotary phone, though, as Boeing's Connexion project takes off. Connexion is satellite-based broadband that will allow passengers to stay active and connected while in the air. What can you do with in-flight broadband? Enter local tech hero Phillip Torrone.

Phillipe is taking a test flight in Connexion One, Boeing's testbed aircraft for the service, today at 3pm. He's listed a few ways to get in touch while he's flying today over at the Make Magazine blog he runs and we'll reproduce them for you here: For AIM/iChat try him here, for Skype go here or see his live Flickr photos here. We also imagine he'll be updating the blog.

We'll try to update this post with a transcript of Seattlest heckling him via IM sometime after 3 so be sure to come back for that.

SEATTLEST: seattlest here
SEATTLEST: are you up in the air?
pmtorrone: yup!
SEATTLEST: sweet
SEATTLEST: can you see seattlest HQ from up there?
pmtorrone: haha, i think so
SEATTLEST: it looks like mt rainier but we actually hollowed it out and we blog from in there
SEATTLEST: not a lot of people know that