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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
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"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