Sounds like a very challanging project. Perhaps it will someday be the standard control mechanism for throttles.. Good luck.

My real interest to let you know it was a Navy modified F-8 Crusader which actually made the first test flights.
We all call it fly by wire but technically it is " digital fly by wire" (DFBW). And is the standard today for many aircraft.

See post. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/n...-024-DFRC.html

However, a320 was the first airliner with DFBW.