[gvb]

Nitpick, the controls were "mechanically assisted" (i.e. "power steering"), not fly by wire. The first FBW fighter was the F-16. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16_Fighting_...

[borism]

sorry to burst your bubble (again), but it wasn't.

http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/220176-first-aircraft-use-fly...

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/f-9....

http://www.globalaircraft.org/planes/cf-105_avro_arrow.pl