In computer science 101 class you
learn about firmware, software and the likes. Firmware drives the device and
software drives the program. The F-35 is driven by pilots, "sort of".
However, the US Air Force and Lockheed have entered into the age of Block III
F-35, subtitled, "software glitches". The pilot gives a command or
input, the software gives a command and the device firmware gives a command as
the F-35 responds accordingly in a milliseconds. Read your Computer Science 101
text book it's all in there on page 225 chapter 8.
The pilot
is interviewed after the ejection seat (a device) is loaded on a truck from
deep in the desert test range. Other devices are unrecognizable in the desert
rubble, the mystery solving phase is conducted back in the shop in some
subcontractor's ivory tower. Having no device when the Pilot isn't talking
code, and because analysis is in the software data stored in the computer lab,
it becomes the story for the F-35, I'm sticking with it!
The
command language logic code isn't logical in some instances. During Computer
Science Class 315, (101,201 is a prerequisite) and as a junior student who is
tasked with deciphering software code as a homework assignment, we all say good
luck over coffee at the campus study spots. In the Lockheed Conundrum Halls of
Technology, they have real PhD’s computer types thinking about what went wrong
with its software computer code. The difference between freshman year and the PhD
level work is comparing one line of code as a freshman exercise compared with
millions of lines of code at the PhD level. This is where the
"if", "when", or "but" code commands come into
play for the F-35. The code may be read in machine language from the command
language as, "If" condition A exists go to line 1325, otherwise go to
line 75. "But" or "when" condition B is valid, adjust flap
control to 45 degrees." The pilot is looking at the horizon intently when
in a millisecond, the software gets its "if" "and" or its
"buts" in a knot leaving the "when" floating free from the program
dichotomy.
At this
time, the pilot has lights, buzzers and horns going off in is helmet.
"But" He looks at the ejection sequence stickered to the cockpit hull
and ejects. "When" the ejection seat is loaded onto a truck from the
desert basin, the F-35 block III will be ready. "If" and
"When" the Software Glitching Team of PhD’s, finds the miscoded lines
before block IV starts, some say the F-35 Advanced Strike Fighter will be
ready, "When" pigs fly.
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