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		gsnedders on May 22, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Europe says 737 Max won't fly until it completes i... Why not? The Airbus A300 has fully mechanical linkage, and none of the fly-by-wire systems introduced later.

rbanffy on May 23, 2019 [–]

Precisely because Airbus was an early adopter of fly-by-wire systems and envelope protections.

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