G650’s Fly-by-wire Electric Backup Aces Initial Test

Gulfstream G650 flight-test aircraft S/N 6001 recently flew for the first time using only an electrically powered, fly-by-wire (FBW) backup flight-control

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By Chad Trautvetter • News Editor at AIN

January 13, 2011

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