Computers Take Flight: A History of NASA's Pioneering Digital Fly-By-Wire Project

by James E. Tomayko

Relates the process by which digital fly-by-wire was developed at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in California from 1971 to 1985. Discusses fly-by-wire's contributions to the space shuttle and the process by which the technology was transformed to other agencies and industry.

192 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2000

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