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To: Blood of Tyrants
Since the A-300 is a fly-by-wire...

This was an early version of the A-300. It was not "fly by wire".

78 posted on 06/01/2004 5:31:33 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: Ignorance On Parade)
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As I have posted, I believe that terminology is a problem here. I helped overhaul an A-300 that came from Eastern Airlines in the late 80's and I KNOW that there were no cables attaching the yoke or pedals or throttles to the flight controls. I literally climbed in every hole that a person could get in. The A-300 had triple redundant flight computers (three each for pitch, roll, and yaw) that were connected by electrical wires to the yoke and flight controls.

I suspect that the term "fly-by-wire" is meant to be used with digital computers while these were primative (by modern standards) analog computers.


101 posted on 06/02/2004 6:09:47 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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