He added that the aircraft would be able to continue without the fly-by-wire system.

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Fly-by-wire was quickly adopted for the second wave of Airbus aircraft in the 1980s, as well as by Boeing in the 1990s.

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As a conductor of light beams, a given volume of the fibers can carry many times as many impulses as a similar volume of copper wire, and may eventually obsolete the latter in telephone communications--as well as in computers, aircraft and for many military purposes.

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