Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site allegra.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!mhuxj!ulysses!allegra!kco From: kco@allegra.UUCP Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: X-29 Message-ID: <2794@allegra.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Sep-84 14:05:04 EDT Article-I.D.: allegra.2794 Posted: Thu Sep 20 14:05:04 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 19:49:48 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 10 "Calverton, N.Y.- Hidden within the sleek skin of Grumman Aerospace Corp's X-29 prototype fighter is a triply redundant digital flight-control system. Without the computers, the plane would be virtually unflyable: its distinctive swept-forward wings, desined for rapid supersonic maneuvering, result in a plane that is as tricky to control as a 40-ton tractor-trailer speeding across an ice-covered bridge. ... " -excerpt from Electronics Week magazine, Sept 10, 1984, page 20