[lug] can't make this stuff up, folks...

[Kenneth D Weinert]

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Nate Duehr wrote:

> (By the way, Aerospace isn't exactly not prone to such silliness.

One of my favorite stories along that line is about the F-16 and in
looking to try to be sure it wasn't just apocryphal I found a couple of
others:

One of the first things the Air Force test pilots tried on an early F-16
was to tell the computer to raise the landing gear while standing still
on the runway. Guess what happened? Scratch one F-16. (my friend says
there is a new subroutine in the code called 'wait_on_wheels' now...)

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/3.44.html

Of course, just because it's on the net doesn't mean it's true, but this
one has a chance of being valid :)

- --
Ken
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Now, who do I call about this gas leak?
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