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To: TobagoJack who wrote (50834)6/3/2009 2:36:55 AM
From: Elroy Jetson  Read Replies (3) of 219205
 
It hardly matters who writes the software for a fly-by-wire plane.

It's a seriously bad idea - overly ambitious for the current level of technology.

It's fine that fighter-jets use this approach to give more stability to an inherently unstable platform, with ejection seats for the pilots when the software or a sensor goes wrong.

This is like de Havilland Comet jets randomly falling from the sky for unknown reasons, all blamed on pilot error - until metal fatigue became a new science.

Upon this recognition, all Comets were withdrawn and scrapped, eventually replaced by the newly designed Comet 4.
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