On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 02:44:04 -0600, "Boomer"
wrote:

yes Flankers have a switch which over rides the FBW limits, that's the only
way they can do the "Cobra" manuever. As I recall F-15s started out with
hydro controls with FBW as back up, then later models went fully fly by
wire.

The F-15 started as conventional with conventional backup and an
analog FCS. It eventually went to a digital FCS, but not to FBW.

The E might be FBW, but the A-D aren't.

Mary

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Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer