Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 9/27/83; site hplabsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!hplabsc!dsmith From: dsmith@hplabsc.UUCP (David Smith) Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: Re: X-29 vs EMP Message-ID: <2332@hplabsc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 12:06:07 EST Article-I.D.: hplabsc.2332 Posted: Wed Jan 9 12:06:07 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 02:58:22 EST References: <3230@alice.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA Lines: 10 So why is the X-29 any worse than the F-16? The F-16 uses a force stick to electronically signal desired control surface movements. (Actually, it's a little fancier than that. I read that horizontal stick force does not signal aileron deflection, but roll rate.) And if a hydraulically actuated B-52 lost its electronics to EMP, how would it navigate home? I don't know how susceptible our planes are to EMP, but the Air Force does test them for it.