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Old 16th November 2010 | 21:21
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Mad (Flt) Scientist
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I suspect the challenge in applying any king of damage tolerant (or self-reconfiguring, because that's what it amounts to) flight control system to a passenger carrying aircraft will be addressing the failure cases.

And, psychologically, there are enough people who don't trust the FBW programming we have today, and that's a known entity which will be identical every time its produced. What these people would make of truly "intelligent" flight control computers ...?
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