By Srinivas Bhogle
The data invasion in aeronautics probably began in the late 1980s when Airbus Industrie unveiled Airbus A320, the world’s first civil fly-by-wire (FBW) aircraft.
In a FBW aircraft, there is a computer introduced between the pilot and the control surface. So, if the pilot wants to yaw sharply to the left, his ‘request’ is first submitted to the computer, and it is the computer that tells the rudder to carry out the maneuver.
FBW technology makes sense because it allows the pilot … []
