'Electric Starlifter' proved power-by-wire, USAF official says
The recently concluded 1,000-hour flight test of a C-141 transport equipped with electric aileron actuators demonstrated that power-by-wire could replace hydraulic actuation, Mike Morgan, program manager at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's Aero Propulsion and Power Directorate, said. The...
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