What, and to whom, are you referring?

I...and Wiki (-pedia, not 'leaks)...am saying a computer is not required for FBW (though they're used 99.99% of the time); it's the elimination of a mechanical connection that defines this term. YOU are the one who said YOUR defnition keyed on the use of a computer as an 'intermediary' in the control signal transer. YOUR definition (incorrectly) allows the inclusion of the MD-11 in the FBW category, not Wiki's!

The MD-11 used computers to help monitor/tweak/limit the HYDRAULIC control systems. That's not FBW, hydraulics are a mechanical connnection.

But when they first tried replacing those connections with the "control input>convert input to electric signal>send signal via wires to servo-motors>servo-motors move control surface proportionally to signal input" model...in the 1930s....THAT is/was fly-by-wire.


/