Cover -- Title -- Table Of Contents -- List Of Figures -- List Of Table -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The F -- 16 Design Philosophy -- 3. Implementation Of The Flight Control System Design -- 3.1 The Fly-By-Wire Decision -- 3.2 The Electrical-To-Mechanical Interface -- 3.3 Redundancy -- 3.4 Lightning Protection -- 4. Unique Flight Control System Functional Features -- 4.1 Aoa/g Limiting -- 4.2 High-Aoa Roll Coordination -- 4.3 Roll Rate Limiter -- 4.4 Rudder Fadeout -- 4.5 Yaw Rate Limiter -- 4.6 Manual Pitch Override -- 5. Conclusions