In a recent letter, reader Capt. (ret.) J. Lepkovsky inaccurately impugns the safety record of fly-by-wire (FBW) aircraft (AW&ST Jan. 14, p. 8). With almost 25 years of in-service experience, the ...

Because of their many redundancies, electronic fly-by-wire controls are actually far safer than traditional hydraulic ones. Any pilot who has ever done a pre-flight check on a Cessna or a Bonanza ...

As the world’s first digital fly-by-wire (FBW) airliner, Airbus Industrie’s A320 was positioned to bring commercial flying and flight management into the 21st century when it was rolled out in 1987.

The kit is designed to provide fly-by-wire capabilities and enable autonomy on legacy fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft. Collins Aerospace’s FBW kit replaces the traditional mechanical control ...

Embraer has chosen to use a side-stick cockpit controller for the Legacy 450/500, but the throttles will be back-driven. Pictured is the 500 cockpit With its Legacy 450/500 executive jets, Embraer is ...

Royal Bank of Canada, and Washington D.C.-based Ferris, Baker Watts, Incorporated (FBW), today announced the signing of a definitive merger agreement pursuant to which RBC Dain Rauscher Inc. will ...

Thales is to provide quadruple-redundant computers for the Gulfstream G650’s fly-by-wire (FBW) flight controls. Military aircraft are set to be the first use cases for the Superpilot technology ...