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Re:A330 flight control laws saved Voyager, inquiry finds by chanandler_bong on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @06:52PM (#13594261)
From the headline, I could not figure out how an A330s flight control system could have any influence on spacecraft launched in 1977. Surely there would be no way to port the code and the storage on the Voyagers is tiny... at least until the V'ger Mk. I upgrade.
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Re:A330 flight control laws saved Voyager, inquiry finds by dct on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @09:48AM (#13598555)
Voyager is the name RAF use: http://www.raf.mod.uk/equipment/voyager.cfm
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Re:A330 flight control laws saved Voyager, inquiry finds by coin on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @10:07PM (#13595342)
That was my first thought too
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Re:A330 flight control laws saved Voyager, inquiry finds by _Codemonkeyism on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @12:23AM (#13595998)
Incidentally my first thought too.
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