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Pilotless Black Hawk Will Soon Take Flight
- Shivetya 7y agoThe best part of course being is that what they learn will eventually make it to public uses and improve air safety for all. Plus this of course applies to drones which are pilot-less from day one, let alone the fantasy of flying cars
- rtkwe 7y agoThere are some planes out there for GA that do already use fly by wire, they're mostly relegated to the highest end though because of expense and weight so iirc they're mostly on the small private jet size of planes not the Cessna size single engine 4 passenger planes. Even looking at helicopters it looks like Bell has made a fly by wire chopper as far back as 2015. [0] [0] https://www.mathworks.com/company/user_stories/bell-helicopter-develops-worlds-first-commercial-fly-by-wire-helicopter.html https://www.mathworks.com/company/user_stories/bell-helicopt...
- guardiangod 7y agoFWIW, China's direct copy of S-70 has ingenuously developed fly-by-wire. https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/china-s-z-20-helicopter-looks-awfully-familiar-1839076626 https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/china-s-z-20-helicopter-lo...
- cptskippy 7y agoAre you saying the development of fly-by-wire in the helicopter is ingenious or the implementation of the fly-by-wire system? If it's later I'm left wondering what's ingenious about it.
- xnyan 7y agoThe engine available was less powerful that what is used in the UH-60, so a fly-by-wire system was devised to drop weight from the aircraft. That's clever enough of a solution I think.