Originally Posted by Brilliant Stuff
That BO105 has been replaced with an EC135 flown by the German Flighttest department/
The new EC135 of DLR/Germany ( D-HFHS ) uses "Fly by Light" Tecnologie instead of "Fly by Wire", that means, that optical fibers are used to transmit the signals to the actuators.
The BO105 crashed several Years ago near Stendal/Germany, the Crew was killed.