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The engineers that design the airframes understand that things fail, and they design the system to function in a degraded state. The linked site has some inter
by Aqua_Geek 16y ago
The engineers that design the airframes understand that things fail, and they design the system to function in a degraded state.
The linked site has some interesting info on the technical design of some of the flight systems. There are multiple redundancies on the hydraulics, for instance. Very interesting stuff.
- jrockway 16y agoIncidentally, sometimes triple-redundancy isn't enough: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232