Posted on 09/20/2023 3:40:05 PM PDT by dynachrome
“Aren’t these the planes that can’t be flown in bad weather because they can’t handle a lightning strike?”
Software error...
If you want to fly in bad weather they have these things in the US military arsenal called All Weather Aircraft. The F-111 was one of them. Maybe the A6... I’m no expert.
I think space shuttles and general manned spacecraft used the The Intel 8088 microprocessor. Primarily because NASA knew that this particular CPU could withstand High rates of radiation common to spacecraft.
[Wiki] “Introduced on June 1, 1979, the 8088 has an eight-bit external data bus instead of the 16-bit bus of the 8086. The 16-bit registers and the one megabyte address range are unchanged, however. Application: Desktop, Embedded.”
It’s something very similar to why they maintain(d) the F-111 and the A6 in the inventory for so many years because they could withstand the range of variants in weather.
And if the F-35 isn’t hardened against weather... static discharges on the acft hull could quite possibly cause a software issue, or initiate a reboot at a most inconvenient phase of the flight.
Again, I’m no expert on these systems. Just a few thoughts as I read through this thread.
The OBIGGS system that injects nitrogen enriched air into the fuel tanks as they fly was giving them problems in 2020 and again in 2022 where it did not work after lighting strikes. They had thought they had that taken care of in previous stand-downs.
Likewise there is a auto eject system on the B variant that has the STOVL landing feature to pop out a pilot faster that they can eject themselves when the aircraft is very close to the ground and this plane was at less than 1,000 feet. It will take a while but I think they will eventually update everyone on the cause.
I have it in hardcover. It’s not for sale.
Well, that certainly makes more sense. They have to get him out of there before they can start the charcoal grilling that’s coming.
yup
I have read a lot of stuff about the problems with the F35. All new planes have teething problems. But, can’t fly the plane in bad weather? That is completely insane. They actually approved and bought a plane that can’t handle bad weather. P38 Lightning pilots must be rolling in their graves.
Ouch.
It was a quick read.
I’m pretty sure that the rest is His Before and After Chapters in His Life.
That is the most plausible explanation that I have read.
I knew nothing about the helmet. Bet that is something to learn to wrap your mind around. Like having eyes in the back of your head.
Thanks
The restrictions on bad weather were temporary and were because of a nitrogen gas system reacting to lightning in a limited number of cases. The nitrogen gas was being injected into fuel tanks as gas was depleted. When lightning hits a spark can form in a gas tank. If oxygen is not sufficient due to nitrogen displacement the tank can’t explode due to lighting strike sparking. This arose in 2020 and again in 2022.
When a system that is supposed to help protect your fuel tanks from lightning is not assured to work, you don’t fly into storms that may have lightning until it is sorted out which I believe they did last year.
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