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What is fly-by-wire?

What is fly-by-wire? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (aviation) A system that replaces the conventional manual flight controls of an aircraft with an electronic interface.
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The industry is only a generation of cars away from fuel cells, mass fitment of on-board computer screens, and aircraft fly-by-wire technology.
Can a mobile phone really cause a fly-by-wire computer-controlled aircraft to fall out of the sky?
The fly-by-wire system consists of a flight control computer, two pilot control sticks and sensors for pitch, roll and yaw measurement.
The KC-10A's boom operator controls refueling operations through a digital fly-by-wire system.
However, the manufacturers have a valid point in that we are quite happy to unthinkingly travel in fly-by-wire aircraft.
The fly-by-wire throttle is so responsive that you just release the pressure on the pedal and it smoothes everything out.

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