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common flight control goof

<YF-22 - prototype was lost due to malfunctioning flight control software


I remember the flight crash footage of it and remember it was the yf-23, because it was darker and much more curvy. It was depictedon a documentary dedicated specifically to a certain type of flight control glitch, one created from too much input which casued the elevators to swing wildly in different directions. It turned out a shuttle experienced a similar glitch in its software one landing (must have been one of the earlier ones), it was one where prince charles was there to watch and he called it a "piss poor landing" not knowing what was really going on.

-Justin Kelly

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