evolution
Boeing,
I drive them, they are constructed in the sixties, we are in 2009. To me that is like in the seventies driving something constructed in the thirties.
In the seventies we wrote typewriters, nowadays we write on computers.
In the seventies cars had carburators, nowadays computercontrolled injection.
The rest of the world has moved on, maybe time for Seattle to move on as well.
Stick and rudder is a good thing, but several "good" S&R pilots has gone down because they stressed airframes beyond design limits. Computers could have prevented this, I cannot recall an accident related to nothing but computer malfunction except maybe on the Gripen prototype. Accidents with computers are related to people not using them correctly.
I would't mind some usable open space in front of me instead of a bullhorn of a dinosaur!
Anyway this is a silly discussion