Factual Friday 🛩️ — The Third Crew Member
Before modern automation airliners carried a Flight Engineer who managed fuel pressurisation hydraulics electrics and engine settings from a huge systems panel.
With ECAM EICAS FADEC and digital automation the need for a third crew member disappeared.
By the 1990s the Flight Engineer role was replaced by computers.
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