Sunday 22 July 2007

Software Bugette

Here's the engine from the F-22 showing its thrust vectoring capabilities, in somebody's garage by the looks of it.

Anyway, it's an expensive plane but six F-22's flying from Hawaii to Japan experienced some problems when they flew over the international date line and their software decided to wig out completely at the notion that the date to the east of the line is one day earlier than that to the west of the line. They lost a lot of important functions like navigation but managed to land safely thanks to the good visibility by follow their refueling tanker back to base.

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