Aircraft to use computer controls
NZPA-AAP Sydney Ansett would be the first commercial airline in the world to use aircraft with the new “fly-by-wire” technology, the company said. Ansett had ordered eight new A 320-200 series planes from the French-based company, Airbus-Industrie and Ansett’s public relations manager, Mr Tony Hill. Instead of the pilot using a mechanical control column to guide the aircraft, the new planes would be flown using a computerised side stick. The fly-by-wire system was used in the American space shuttles and the Mariner space probe but the only plane which now used it was the FlB fighter. Mr Hill said the eight planes would cost Ansett SAI billion (SNZI.2 billion). The new plane would be called the Skystar and would make its first flight early in 1987, he said.
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