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Old 06-19-2013 | 02:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Eisbaer
Real airplanes don't have "tables" up front.
They have a yoke, which does absolutely nothing because the design of the yoke was that was the best way for the pilot to physically move cables that actually moved the control surfaces.

Its all done by computers now. No actual cables from the cockpit.

So I think Howard Roark would not like the design of the 787 cockpit at all....
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