Erasmus From Italy, joined Jun 2007, 0 posts, RR: 0 Posted (11 years 2 months 3 hours ago) and read 1122 times:
A friend of mine sent me this picture. I immediately thought it was fake, but he claimed it wasn't! So I searched the web using the major searchengines. I didn't find very much. But this site: http://flightdeck.ie.orst.edu/scripts/dbsqldev/evisurvey.idc?Study_ID=47
made me believe that there really was such a thing as a fly-by-wire 'proof of concept' testbed A300.
Can anybody tell me for sure if the picture below is real or fake? If it's real, where can I find more info about this testbed A300?
GDB From United Kingdom, joined May 2001, 12711 posts, RR: 80 Reply 4, posted (11 years 1 month 4 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 990 times:
I saw that aircraft perform a great display at the Farnborough 1984 show.
Previous to the A300 FBW test aircraft, a sidestick was fitted to Concorde 201, one of it's last tasks before retirement.
Ktliem@yvr From Canada, joined Aug 2001, 161 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (11 years 1 month 4 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 981 times:
If I remember well, Garuda was the first airline to receive a 2-man cockpit A300. Until then all A300 had 3-man cockpits. The cokpit was a hybrid and didn't incorporate EFIS instruments.
Erasmus From Italy, joined Jun 2007, 0 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (11 years 1 month 4 weeks 1 hour ago) and read 933 times:
Does anybody know a website that can learn me a bit more about the history of this 'fly-by-wire' testbed A300 and the initial testing that was performed.
The usual major search engines were no help.
THX.
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