During the early 70’s we took an instrumented Phoenix missile to Grumman’s plant at Calverton, Long Island. This missile was to measure the captive flight environment. We flew it on flight number three of aircraft number three. We flew this missile many times over the next 18 or so months. One day, number three departed and recovered. At the debrief, I noticed many Navy pilots. They were there to pick up aircraft to take to the fleet. Now the F-14 didn’t have 8,000,000 lines of code but it was still a complex aircraft. How long have we been working on the F-35?
Good point.
Recall that the F-22 went all “blue screen of death” when it crossed the international dateline while flying to Hawaii.
Code issue. . undetected til then.