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Dan, you wrote:
"The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor fighter about a year ago hit an
interesting bug in the navigation software, something we should all be
aware of when writing navigation software."

Paul Hirose mentioned this on the list some ten months ago. Here's the
message:
http://fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx?i=102216&y=200702

I saw this story in a couple of different places, and I remember thinking at
the time: why would we believe that this story is literally true? is the US
military in the habit of issuing press releases on the details of software
glitches? Although there was very likely some sort of software problem, I
think that the specific longitude problem was merely an off-hand speculation
from a media consultant. CNN and company have a bunch of retired military
paid to speculate on whatever is in the news. If you check the "sources"
listed on the Wikipedia page, you will find that one  of them is, in fact,
the primary source of this rumor. It's a transcript from a CNN news program,
and a retired general recounts the Raptor navigation software story. There
is no other independent source for this story (the date line bug) that I
have been able to find --just that one retired general talking from his
armchair. The second "source" listed on the Wikipedia page says that there
was a software problem, but it does not mention the longitude problem at
all. So did it happen?

 -FER


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