Fly-by-Wireless Plane Takes to the Sky

galactic_grub writes to tell us that engineers in Portugal have built and flown a plane with no wires or mechanical connections between the major systems, only a wireless network. From the article: "Tests flights carried out in Portugal have shown that the system works well. Cristina Santos, at Minho University in Portugal, who developed the plane, says the aim is primarily to reduce weight and power requirements. 'Also, if you do not have the cables then the system is much more flexible to changes,' she says."

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Why not use it as a backup?

[Spudster]

Why not have the wireless option as a failsafe for the wired system? It makes sense to use this just in case the conventional wired system failes. Just my $.02