From The Archives: McDonnell Douglas AH-64 LHX Digital Flight Demonstrator

McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Co. was conducting flight evaluations of a single-pilot digital fly-by-wire control system installed in the front cockpit of an AH-64 Apache helicopter (Read more on page 21 of our October 28, 1995 issue). 

The first flight exercised the McDonnell Douglas Astronautics/Honeywell-developed digital control system, which occurred Dec. 20, from the McDonnell Douglas facility in Mesa, Arizona. 

See the cover and read the full issue dated January 13, 1986.

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