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By: 29th November 2011 at 00:08 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-An RC model is generally not 'fly by wire' other than in the sense that wires are used to mechanically connect the servos to the control surfaces
Fly by wire in the full scale aircraft means that the control surfaces are connected to the servo (pilot) electronically, not physically, with a computer between the two (Three computers actually - they take a vote in the case of a disagreement)
Moggy
By: 29th November 2011 at 07:33 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-so if you ripped out the fly by wire stuff and you stuck a good old fashioned set of controls in the Eurofighter would it still fly though?. i would have thought so but i suppose its not the kind of thing we would ever find out unless someone made a real good flight sim of it
By: 29th November 2011 at 17:34 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I doubt we will ever know.
Moggy
By: 29th November 2011 at 20:13 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-CG position.
If you move the CG back as far as the real ones are then you would not be able to fly it RC, when building large scale turbine powered models for competition, marks were lost in static judging because the under cart position has to be further forward on a model because of the forward CG or it would not take off
Dave
By: 9th December 2011 at 11:50 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-so if you ripped out the fly by wire stuff and you stuck a good old fashioned set of controls in the Eurofighter would it still fly though?
The Typhoon relies on it's computers to constantly make small adjustments in its control surfaces to keep the aircraft in the air, without them it would simply fall out of the sky.
As I understand it the Typhoon is negatively aerodynamically stable, a human pilot would simply be unable to compensate for this in flight, hence the computers. The benefit to this is that it makes the aircraft much more maneuverable.
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By: pistonrob - 28th November 2011 at 21:30
why can a radio controlled model of an Eurofighter fly without "fly by wire" and yet a "real" Eurofighter fall out of the sky if the fly by wire system fails?.
as i believe the real aircraft is designed to be unstable and unable to fly without it...