• 1993
Flight Control: Wing Warping To Fly-by-wire

Summary Two years after the first manned flight, the Wrights mastered control sufficiently to fly the first circle. By WWII, the first hydraulically boosted controls were invented. Digital flight control, fly-by-wire technology, has become state of the art.

  • 1993

S3.E12 ∙ Flight Control: Wing Warping To Fly-by-wire

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Neil Armstrong

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Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Nov 2, 1993

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Summary Two years after the first manned flight, the Wrights mastered control sufficiently to fly the first circle. By WWII, the first hydraulically boosted controls were invented. Digital flight control, fly-by-wire technology, has become state of the art.

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Nov 2, 1993

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

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