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Lockheed's F-22 Raptor Gets Zapped by International Date Line
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| February 26, 2007
| Brandon Hill
Posted on 02/26/2007 2:47:19 PM PST by SubGeniusX
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To: Paleo Conservative
Do these planes really have nothing"analog" on them for back-up at least?
This seems too stupid.
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posted on
02/26/2007 3:06:23 PM PST
by
brooklin
To: SubGeniusX
Uh... this sounds like an urban legend to me. The dateline appears on maps, not in the air.
I can't see how it would have any effect whatsoever.
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posted on
02/26/2007 3:06:31 PM PST
by
Ramius
([sip])
To: SubGeniusX
U.S. Air Force to have to admit that their aircraft which cost $125+ million USD apiece were knocked out of the sky due to a few lines of computer code. Cylons infiltrated the US defense dept.
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posted on
02/26/2007 3:06:42 PM PST
by
staytrue
To: fremont_steve
"There is a story about the F16 flipping to inverted flight after crossing the date line from years back."
I remember reading one notice on the bulletin board of an fighter doing an uncommanded loop shortly before final approach.
Whats more concerning is that this info was released. Shouldn't this be a secret?
To: SubGeniusX
Sorry, I do not believe this quite.
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posted on
02/26/2007 3:07:20 PM PST
by
Candor7
To: Nathan Zachary
Remember that bridge in California that looked like it would last for the next two hundred years but came down disastrously in the first severe wind storm due to unforeseen harmonics built into it's most basic structure?
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posted on
02/26/2007 3:07:41 PM PST
by
Desron13
(If you constantly vote between the lesser of two evils then evil is your ultimate destination.)
To: JRios1968
LOL!
The blue screen of death strikes again.
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posted on
02/26/2007 3:07:54 PM PST
by
darkangel82
(Socialism is NOT an American value.)
To: SubGeniusX; Cyber Liberty; patton; theDentist
Cool!
I love errors like this ... that get resolved by eyesite and VFR tactics.....
Sobering. Very, very sobering.
But remember, had this been a even more difficult mission (in space, trying to take out a colliding asteroid (remember the multiple errors that have wiped out several Martian and Venusian unmanned flights), or an uncomplicated military like stopping a plain merchant ship from mining LA harbor (oops - the China own that one, and THEY won't let it be mined) or Panama (nope, Chinese own that one too) or .....
People's flexibility, if they're properly trained - Armstrong flew the lunar lander away from boulders at the pre-programmed site! - can make up for many computer errors.
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posted on
02/26/2007 3:08:42 PM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: SubGeniusX
Got to hate it when this happens. Some low level programmer may have sent a memo on this problem five years ago and got his ears pinned back for thanks.
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posted on
02/26/2007 3:08:46 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(300 miles north of Big Wild Life)
To: SubGeniusX
You switched to a MAC in '98 then?
Nope!
Just pure old reliable Windows, then Win2000 Pro and XP-Pro.
What's a MAC, by the way?
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posted on
02/26/2007 3:09:42 PM PST
by
adorno
To: staytrue
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posted on
02/26/2007 3:09:48 PM PST
by
sevenbak
To: SubGeniusX
And we thought Y2K was nonsense.......
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posted on
02/26/2007 3:09:52 PM PST
by
b4its2late
(Liberalism is a hollow log and a mental disorder.)
To: SubGeniusX
I have always carried a handheld GPS when I flew since they were made available.
It's awfully nice to have something that the aircraft and avionics designer don't know about!
Having said that, I hope they at least had a standby horizon!
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posted on
02/26/2007 3:10:13 PM PST
by
BillM
To: Ramius
It's amazing how people will believe anything they read, even if it is just on some blog.
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posted on
02/26/2007 3:11:02 PM PST
by
Ramius
([sip])
To: Candor7
Sorry, I do not believe this quite.Now that you mention it, isn't this what "Zulu Time" is for? Once in flight it seems that the only time that is relevant is GMT (Zulu). Am I right?
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posted on
02/26/2007 3:11:40 PM PST
by
Tallguy
To: Zeroisanumber
Does Russia still produce MIGs with vacumn tubes in the circuitry? The idea was to keep the fighters airborne in case of EMP.
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posted on
02/26/2007 3:11:50 PM PST
by
buckalfa
To: Greystoke
You don't have Vista yet do you?
Not yet! But I'm pretty sure that both you and I will have it on our computers within 1 or 2 years.
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posted on
02/26/2007 3:12:08 PM PST
by
adorno
To: adorno
My Mac? My mac is the the fastest windows machine I've ever tried!
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posted on
02/26/2007 3:12:23 PM PST
by
sevenbak
To: JRios1968
>When the group of Raptors crossed over the IDL, multiple computer systems crashed on the planes. Everything from fuel subsystems, to navigation and partial communications were completely taken offline. Numerous attempts were made to "reboot" the systems to no avail
I could have told them
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didn't come complete
with all the bells and
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To: SubGeniusX; phantomworker; COEXERJ145; microgood; liberallarry; cmsgop; shaggy eel; RayChuang88; ...
I thought issues like this were supposed to be discovered on the test bed. Someone's got some splainin' to do.
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