[wellylug] F22 software glitch: should have used Open Source :-)

[Brent Wood]

Gotta chuckle about this one....

I've yet to find any commercial GIS or navigation software which hasn't failed
at some stage at 180deg. (they typically work with +-180, rather than mod360,
which any sensible solution would use in this situation), but I've worked with
Open Source tools on this area, & with the developers so I think it's safe to
say that OS is well ahead of the commercial sector in this particular arena!  

Just be thankful they weren't testing a misile nav system :-)

Brent 
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KADENA AIR BASE, Japan (Reuters) - The arrival of 12 U.S. F-22 fighter planes
at a U.S. air base on Japan's southern island of Okinawa was delayed on Sunday
without word on a new date for their first deployment outside the United
States.

The U.S. Air Force's newest fighter planes had been scheduled to arrive at the
weekend at the U.S. Kadena Air Base.

But a statement from the Air Force in Okinawa said the aircraft had turned back
to Hawaii for operational reasons, without elaborating. They were still
scheduled to be deployed.
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An elaboration of the reason is at:

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/25/2038217&threshold=-1