0 If an aircraft or the equipment for controlling it is fly-by-wire, it is controlled by computers.
1 fly-by-wire technology uses computers to control planes:
It has doubtful software in its targeting and direction-finding equipment, and it has as yet unsolved deficiencies in the fly-by-wire system.
The second article described fly-by-wire systems, which are designed to make aircraft lighter, but also to improve their reliability and to reduce pilot error.
The flight of approximately 40 minutes duration incorporated system handling checks; and the sophisticated quadruplex digital fly-by-wire control system, necessary for this unstable configured aircraft, performed exactly as expected.
In addition, most of the early digital fly-by-wire aircraft also had an analog electrical, a mechanical, or a hydraulic back-up flight control system.
The dry contact transferred no fuel, but was intended to test the tanker's fifth-generation fly-by-wire telescoping boom.
It is used in some form in all modern commercial fly-by-wire aircraft.
Preliminary reports said that the crash was due to a malfunction in the fly-by-wire system.
A basic form of fly-by-wire facilitates spoiler operation, utilizing electric signaling instead of traditional control cables.
