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tzs • yesterday at 11:31 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I wonder if there is a list someone of planes that have had glitches when crossing various borders or boundaries on the Earth?

I remember hearing of a fighter a long time ago whose autopilot flipped out when it crossed the equator, due to sin(latitude) becoming negative.


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Jtsummers • yesterday at 11:38 PM

That was the F-16, and it's either apocryphal or something reported from testing/flight simulations and not an actual incident with a real aircraft.