Three men (and the odd tourist like me) were crammed into a narrow cylinder filled with controls and dials that had more in common with an early Cold War bomber than today's "fly by wire" jets.
In 1995, Boeing introduced the 777, its first fly-by-wire jet.
"When I started, people asked why I was making a UAV with four times the computational power of the F-16, the first fly-by-wire jet fighter," says Mr Karem.
Fly-by-wire jets sever all direct mechanical links between the pilot and the aircraft's control surfaces.
In a well-publicized use case, Upskill helped Boeing save tens of millions of dollars by using AR to assist the process of wiring jets.
And as I was already observing ten years ago, the computers in fly-by-wire jets are already programmed to override pilot commands that might stall the plane no matter how hard the pilot yanks at the yoke, the computer passes on only safe commands to the elevators on the tail.
Designed and built by Dassault, a French aviation company based in Paris, the 7X lays claim to being the first fly-by-wire business jet, as well as the first aircraft to be designed entirely in a virtual environment.
Until the medical-devices market took off in the 1990's, the shape memory effect remained confined to niches like Raychem's nitinol sleeves to couple wires in jet fighters and to seal pipes in hard to reach locations.
They sit at their screens and observe the trades -- in twenty minutes I watched as one particular algorithm made $1.5 million -- with all the passivity of pilots in a fly-by-wire jumbo jet.
When a fatberg forms, a team of sewage workers have to perform keyhole surgery on the flesh and bones of London itself, sending down probes and wires to jet high-pressure water into the fatberg, breaking it into lumps.
With four games remaining after this week, and every one of them a potential trip-wire, the Jets can't afford to let this game slip away because, despite Chicago's recent surge, the Bears have been reeling.
