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 Posted: Feb 14, 2007 - 05:26 PM
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While en route to Kadena Air Base, Japan, Feb. 10, a software issue affecting the F-22 Raptor's navigation system was discovered.
Something tells me their little software issue had something to do with crossing the international date line. Remember that whole supposed Y2K catastrophe that never happened? Well, something like that. |
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Posted: Feb 14, 2007 - 09:08 PM
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| Per Dozer, you are correct...Check |
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Posted: Feb 14, 2007 - 09:22 PM
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checksixx wrote:
Per Dozer, you are correct...Check
Heh, just checked out Fencecheck.com and indeed, that was the issue. Before any MIB come knocking on my door thinking that I know more than I do, FYI it was just a lucky guess. It is funny, though, as Dozer himself observed. As they say, the devil is in the details. Remember that Mars probe that NASA lost because NASA was using metric measurements while the contractor was using English units? What's somewhat disconcerting is that the contractor in that particular snafu was none other than... drum roll please... Lockheed Martin. |
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Posted: Feb 15, 2007 - 04:42 PM
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| IMO, reminds me of back in Falcon 3.0: Operation Fighting Tiger, in the Hokkaidou theatre of ops, when the player's on a losing streak (which in my case was frequent, as I didn't feel like trying overly hard to win in that particular theatre: failing one of three daily missions for a stalemate progress, allowing Ivan to capture one or more nodes on the northern Hokkaidou coast, but always taking out the Admiral Kuznetsov and the SAM batteries on the Russian islands on the first day), the virtual FS-X pilot may complain that (during) a dogfight was a bad time to figure the software bugs of the plane. |
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Posted: Feb 15, 2007 - 05:04 PM
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| The next generation fighter is here, so long as it doesnt have to fly to another continent. LOL |
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Posted: Feb 15, 2007 - 08:23 PM
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shiz302 wrote:
The next generation fighter is here, so long as it doesnt have to fly to another continent. LOL
LOL! That's a good one.  |
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Posted: Feb 17, 2007 - 03:01 PM
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Posted: Feb 17, 2007 - 06:15 PM
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dwightlooi wrote:
Its interesting to note that while the F-22 is undoubtedly the faster plane, it is the F-35's external tanks that appears to have been prominently area ruled for supersonic drag reduction.
Anybody know why they'd build the inner pylons for 5,000lbs and then NOT put a 600 gallon tank on it? Why put those dinky ones on it? |
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Posted: Feb 17, 2007 - 08:50 PM
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Today (or last night), PACAF released five more very nice shots of the deployed Raptors at Hickam AFB, Hawaii.
 F-22 Raptors sit on the flight line at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii Feb. 12, 2007. The F-22's and more than 250 Airmen from the 27th Fighter Squadron at Langley Air Force Base, Va., are bound for Kadena Air Base, Japan, for the aircraft's first overseas operational deployment.
 F-22 Raptors sit on the flight line at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii Feb. 12, 2007. The F-22's and more than 250 Airmen from the 27th Fighter Squadron at Langley Air Force Base, Va., are bound for Kadena Air Base, Japan, for the aircraft's first overseas operational deployment.
 F-22 Raptors sit on the flight line at Hickam AFB, Hawaii February 12, 2007. The F-22's and more than 250 Airmen from the 27th FS at Langley AFB, Virginia, are bound for Kadena AB, Japan, for the aircraft's first overseas operational deployment. Closest aircraft is F-22A #03-4049.
More in the <a href="gallery_item15059_page28.html">F-22 photo gallery</a>. |
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Posted: Feb 18, 2007 - 05:50 AM
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Last night, USAF reported:
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First F-22A Raptors arrive at Kadena
2/17/2007 - HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE, Hawaii -- The first two F-22A Raptors arrived at Kadena Air Base, Japan, Feb. 16 for their first overseas deployment. The remaining aircraft will follow in the coming days.
A software issue affecting the F-22A's navigation system was discovered while the aircraft were en route to Kadena Feb. 10, which delayed the arrival for almost a week. F-22A engineers and maintainers rapidly updated the software and, after successful testing, the aircraft departed Hickam.
The U.S. Air Force is deploying 12 F-22A Raptors and more than 250 members from the 27th Fighter Squadron at Langley Air Force Base, Va., to Kadena as part of a regularly-scheduled U.S. Pacific Command rotation of aircraft to the Pacific.
Story link:
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123041553
In contrast, leading news agencies reported that the first two jets arrived at Kadena AB on Saturday, February 17. See current photos from AP/Kyodo News and Reuters/Issei Kato on Yahoo! News:
http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/new ... ews_photos
Looks like USAF has really a "problem" with the international date line... 
Anybody with a super-sharp screen or printed versions of these news photos who can identify the serial numbers of both jets? We would be very grateful! |
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Posted: Feb 18, 2007 - 06:02 AM
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| Thanks for the updates and pictures J.J.! Love that picture with the twelve Raptors, depending on perspective it's such a beautiful and yet also a terrifying image. |
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Posted: Feb 18, 2007 - 04:17 PM
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Japanese video news at:
Reported the following for Feb 18th:
Eight more F-22A arrived at Kadena AB, Okinawa Prefecture. Another two emergency landed at Wake Island, after one of them had electric power generator trouble.
Two of the above videos feature FF 03-051. |
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Posted: Feb 18, 2007 - 04:20 PM
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I love that picture with the twelve Raptors,
Reminds me of the early scene in the movie ID4, when alien fighters popped out from nowhere and began to strafe a bunch of parked USMC fighters. 8D |
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Posted: Feb 18, 2007 - 08:18 PM
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Reminds me of the early scene in the movie ID4, when alien fighters popped out from nowhere and began to strafe a bunch of parked USAF fighters. 8D
They were F/A-18C's of the USMC.
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Another two emergency landed at Wake Island, after one of them had electric power generator trouble.
Geez, first overseas deployment has it's own share of glitches huh? |
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Posted: Feb 19, 2007 - 04:48 AM
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