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Standard control surfaces on the wings and tail take care of horizontal flight. Actually getting an off-the-shelf flight controller to deal with the transitions was tricky. [Tom] ended up adding ...

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pilot inputs do not directly move control surfaces The A320 is the first civilian aircraft with a digital fly-by-wire system.

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