[LINK] F-22 Raptor stumped by International Date Line
Kim Holburn
kim.holburn at gmail.com
Thu Mar 1 22:06:40 AEDT 2007
On 2007/Mar/01, at 5:06 AM, Daniel Rose wrote:
> There is a possibly apocryphal story about fighters going from
> Europe south over the Equator.
>
> They flipped over in mid air and flew along upside down.
F-16 - I remember being told about this. Whether it's true or not I
don't know. Can't find anything about it in snopes so maybe it is ;-)
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_zdewk/is_200210/ai_ziff32203
http://www.flick.com/~liralen/journal/adams
On the other hand this reference says it was a bug found in simulation:
http://securitydigest.org/risks/mirror/ftp.sri.com-risks/madison.paper
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