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Fighter Pilot's Stealth Secrets to DOMINATION: Hasard Lee: The Into the Impossible Podcast (#317)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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The Benefits of Flying by Wire

The F-35 is running a continuous model of the aircraft line and when I put in an input, it's not necessarily the flight controls that are making the traditional flight controls happen. The jet will figure out the best way to do that. In terms of just a pure flight control system, it makes us a lot more agile because these jets would go out of control. They're fundamentally, they're an unstable system. So you need those inputs from the computer to keep it flying.

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