[time-nuts] Crossing International Date line causes F-22 Jet Problems

Maggie Leber k3xs at arrl.net
Wed Apr 11 21:39:45 UTC 2007


On 4/11/07, Brooke Clarke <brooke at pacific.net> wrote:

> If the computer program is in the millions of lines and had this bug, what
> other bugs does it have?

Very similar to a bug in F-16 software that caused the fly-by-wire to
roll the a/c inverted when it passed south of the equator. I believe
that bug was caught in simulation testing, though.

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