New Side-Stick Design First On Irkut Narrowbody

Russia’s Irkut MS-21 narrowbody airliner is to be the first large commercial aircraft with active side-sticks as part of its fly-by-wire flight-control system. UTC Aerospace Systems (UTAS) is developing the active interceptors. Active side-sticks provide tactical and visual feedback in response to...

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