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Old 7th Jun 2011, 12:35
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Lonewolf_50
 
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A few bits and pieces ...

1. Comanche was not only FBW, it didn't have rudder pedals.

2. Sikorsky UH-60 Blackhawk has had a fly-by-wire flight control surface, the horizontal stab, since the A model. (You can revert it to manual control, but in auto mode it exhibits all of the characteristics of a fly-by-wire control surface. It moves to help you without you doing anything.)

At certain airspeeds, this can lead to a bit of "hunting" (depending upon what you are doing), but one place that the automatic programming of the horizontal stab shines is during autorotation.
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