Thrust by Wire
For more than 60 years, turbine aircraft engines relied on some form of mechanical control to vary the amount of fuel being fed to them. The original arrangement of cables, pulleys, horns and control rods is still in use on some aircraft models today. Effective in producing the desired results, this...
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