Timeline for How do "fundamentally unstable" aircraft deal with the risk of computer failure?
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| Jun 16, 2021 at 9:45 | comment | added | PcMan | In short, they do not. Many modern aircraft (usually top-end fighters) would shred themselves within fractions of a second without constant, active corrective (computer) control. Even the Stabile ones would die, due to uncontrolled turbine behaviour, incorrect computer-applied trim, etc. | |
| Mar 20, 2021 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAviation/status/1373333526280552448 | ||
| Mar 18, 2021 at 11:26 | comment | added | CGCampbell | Actually, the X-29's (shown above) wiki page has an excellent paragraph discussing the 6 (!) computers used to control the plane via FBW. | |
| Mar 18, 2021 at 7:00 | answer | added | jocasta17 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 19, 2015 at 20:45 | history | edited | fooot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 15, 2014 at 18:40 | vote | accept | Keegan | ||
| Apr 27, 2014 at 22:36 | history | edited | Danny Beckett |
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| Feb 19, 2014 at 23:12 | answer | added | Adrian | timeline score: 6 | |
| Feb 19, 2014 at 12:46 | comment | added | jwenting | @JanHudec not true. Survivability is important as pilots (and aircraft) are expensive and slow to replace, repairing them is much prefered. | |
| Feb 19, 2014 at 5:48 | comment | added | Jan Hudec | Military aircraft don't care about safety. They have ejection seats. | |
| Feb 19, 2014 at 2:36 | answer | added | paul | timeline score: 21 | |
| Feb 19, 2014 at 2:34 | history | edited | Keegan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 19, 2014 at 2:13 | history | asked | Keegan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |