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Old 19th Dec 2015, 18:37
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Surely the argument of computers being between pilot and control surfaces has long vanished from relevance. Many modern aircraft cannot be directly hand flown as they are aerodynically unstable by design e.g. f117. The days of real direct control are gone, transport pilots no longer require bulging biceps to execute emergency flight control inputs.
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