Posted on 06/04/2009 9:46:02 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
A hydraulic servo is merely the muscle end of fly-by-wire.
Once again, tell the mechanically-challenged journalism major that wrote this:
...key components in fly-by-wire systems, which use computers and wires instead of mechanics and hydraulics to control a plane's flight.
The statement speaks for itself.
A literal “Blue Screen of Death.”
I would call him an intellectually challenged journo. He’s not entirely wrong, but he’s also not entirely right.
I’d have slapped him down if he wrote that in a system cert plan! (I’m in system certification for the aerospace industry).
There’s a reason why I refuse to work on medical software or anything that moves metal. I sleep a lot more at night knowing nobody’s life will ever depend on the software I QA, bugs in my software might make them go bankrupt, but they’ll live.
Yes, just referring to cables and pulleys as “mechanics” suggests tech phobia, aside from suggesting hydraulics are not part of the control system.
Here, here. I develop software in the financial industry and it performs critical functions, but lives do not directly hang in the balance.
Scary thought.
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