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Old 2nd August 2006 | 00:56
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NickLappos
 
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bockywocky missed the point that I made. The basic architecture of the NH 90's FBW is that all computations are made in a pair of analog computers that match the outputs of a pair of digital computers. Any miscompare shuts down that lane. This means that the FBW on the NH90 is incapable of doing anything that can't be done with resisters and capacitors. It is therefore relegated to damping and making normal helo flight controls, basically 1975 flight controls, in spite of the fact that it is a FBW.

Nonetheless, it is in production, and so it counts, as does the V22
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