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Post #67,274 by ben_tilly 12/7/02 7:49:19 AM Reply	Ouch I wouldn't want to be flying that plane when the software required restarting. Particularly not while doing any interesting maneuvers. Which are more than likely to exercise untested code-paths. Imagine the bug reports you could get... Bug submitter: It appears that whenever we get into low-altitude dog-fights, the plane goes into a power dive. Programmer: That isn't very helpful. Dogfights involve a lot of complex maneuvers. I need to know exactly what the pilot was doing. Can you get a more detailed description? Bug submitter: Yo, jackass. The pilot. Power-dove. At low altitude. At supersonic speed. etc Cheers, Ben "Career politicians are inherently untrustworthy; if it spends its life buzzing around the outhouse, it\ufffds probably a fly." - [link\|http://www.nationalinterest.org/issues/58/Mead.html\|Walter Mead]
Post #67,276 by boxley 12/7/02 8:26:55 AM Reply	Raptor I believe is an unmanned aircraft lately used to fire hellfire missiles at bad guys. thanx, bill will work for cash and other incentives [link\|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html\|skill set] Opera was the television of the nineteenth century:loud, vulgar and garish with plots that could only be called infantile. "Pendergast"
Post #67,282 by Another Scott 12/7/02 8:36:05 AM Reply	Nope. F-22 Raptor. The next Uberfighter. [link\|http://www.af.mil/lib/airpower/airpower_specs.shtml\|F-22]. You're thinking of the [link\|http://www.af.mil/lib/airpower/airpower_specs.shtml\|Predator] perhaps? Cheers, Scott.
Post #67,289 by boxley 12/7/02 11:29:46 AM Reply	oops, wrong aircraft will work for cash and other incentives [link\|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html\|skill set] Opera was the television of the nineteenth century:loud, vulgar and garish with plots that could only be called infantile. "Pendergast"
Post #67,383 by deSitter 12/8/02 11:18:33 AM Reply	The Ultimate Anti-Terrorist Weapon The beautiful thing about this thing is that it's a real monster to the enemy - like a large insect without a soul and with a single mission - put a Hellfire missle in your Immediate Vicinity. The terrorists will have to hide so deep that they will be ineffective. This is the real war on these bastards. You don't need massed armies for this - you need intelligence. The (former McDonnell-Douglas) people who make the Predator also make the [link\|http://www.af.mil/news/airman/0601/jdam.html\|JDAM], a strap-on intelligence boost for conventional bombs. You can run, but you can't hide! -drl

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