Originally Posted by
johnjosh43
The Vulcan wasn't pure fly-by-wire. It's control surfaces were remotely signalled but had a physical connection rather than electrical. Sort of fly-by-stiff wire :-)
Not the first time that's mentioned.
Do you (or does anybody ele) have a schematic of the Vulcan system?
It should be on my CD of the Vulcan manual, but unfortunately my CD drive is on strike.....
MFgeo, I think we're talking Europe here... the Avro Arrow was Canadian,so I would think it unlikely the flight test results would have been available to Airbus.
CJ