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Old June 29th 04, 08:04 PM
Alan Dicey
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Emilio wrote:

Do F-15 fly by wire system prevent the aircraft from stalling at that low
speed? Last time I saw an aircraft with fly by wire system did such a
stunt, Airbus plowed right in to the forest at the end of the forest!


The F15 does not have what avionics people think of as fly-by-wire. In
fly-by-wire the control surfaces are moved by the computer alone, which
integrates control inputs (pilots suggestions) with the aircrafts
position in the flight envelope (the sensed environment). In
fly-by-wire there is no mechanical connection between the pilot and the
control surfaces. The F-15 has hydromechanical connections between the
pilots controls and the ailerons, stabilators and rudders.

What the F-15 does have is a stability augmentation system.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...raft/f-15e.htm

The first production fly-by-wire aircraft was the F-16.