F-35 Cancelled, then what ?

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Bevo - and adding insult to injury, they have to pay parking fees to LockMart!

So the FBW is about re-activating stations one and nine, then. It may also help with flight characteristics generally, and it's also possible that it is a better idea, as the people who understand how to fix analog and electro-mechanical stuff fade away. Plus this description of the current system sounds scary.

Previous incarnations of the jet were equipped with a dual-channel, high-authority, three-axis control augmentation system superimposed on top of a hydro-mechanical system.