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Old 1st May 2015, 17:50
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peekay4
 
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A lot of self-contridictions in your post there Dozy.

Btw you may want to read about Bernard Ziegler. He was the guy who pushed very hard for Airbus to adopt digital FBW sidesticks and for the industry to accept the new system. This was an entirely different than what was on the Concorde. (Concorde had analogue controls).

Bernard was the son of Henri Ziegler, Airbus founder and CEO.

Both Zieglers were intimately aware with limitations of the Concorde's control design... many consider Henri to be "the father of Concorde".

There's nothing wrong to revisit the design choices Bernard made 30 years ago for Airbus. The world has changed since then. Had reliable active sidestick technology existed back in 1980, there's little doubt Airbus would have adopted it.
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