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From: "Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org>
Subject: Re: Jobs at Lockheed Martin
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 01:22:01 GMT
Date: 2000-09-30T01:22:01+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZebB5.1397$Sa.96718@news.flash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 39D4E9A8.4315F696@swbell.net

"John Magness" <jmagness@swbell.net> wrote in message
news:39D4E9A8.4315F696@swbell.net...
>
> My error.  go to www.careerMozaic.com  I did just now -- search on
Ada"  -- &
> Texas for the state.
> 47 hits, 3 or 4 were bogus (American Disabilities Act, etc.)  but
approximately
> 40 of them are for LM in Dallas/Ft. Worth. And many of those are for the
F-16.
> Which block was the first to use a digital flight computer? I worked on
the
> flight simulators simulators for aircraft blocks 30, 40, and 50 in the
late 80's
> and recall no mention of a digital flight computer.  But, hey -- that
doesn't
> mean allot.

The digital flight control computer was an upgrade for the Block 40
configuration. First flight was in 1987. See

http://www.codeonemagazine.com/archives/1997/articles/jul_97/jul4_97_p.html

http://www.flash.net/~kennieg/dflcsff.jpg

http://www.flash.net/~kennieg/dflcs.jpg

The production F-16 digital flight control computer is currently programmed
in the JOVIAL language, whereas the F-22 digital flight control system is
programmed in Ada.

>     Also several months ago there were several congratulatory postings on
this
> ng (due to the use of Ada) about delivering the first  F-16s equipped with
> digital flight computers to the USAF.  I am confused.

I believe you're thinking of the F-16 MMC (Modular Mission Computer), which
is an upgrade to the (already-digital) airborne mission avionics. Part of
this upgrade was to implement the mission algorithms in Ada. See

http://www.lmtas.com/News/Press/F16/f16pr000706.html

The digital flight control computer is an entirely separate system.





  reply	other threads:[~2000-09-30  1:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-09-28  0:00 Jobs at Lockheed Martin Phil Turke
2000-09-28  0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-09-28  0:00 ` John Magness
2000-09-29  2:25   ` Ken Garlington
2000-09-29  0:00     ` John Magness
2000-09-30  1:22       ` Ken Garlington [this message]
2000-09-28  0:00 ` Marin David Condic
2000-09-29  1:36   ` Ken Garlington
2000-09-29  0:00     ` Marin David Condic
2000-09-28  0:00 ` William Dale
2000-09-28  0:00   ` Laura Martinez
2000-09-29  0:00   ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-02  0:00     ` Jerry Petrey
2000-10-02  0:00       ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-02  0:00         ` Marin David Condic
2000-10-07  0:00     ` David Kristola
2000-10-09  0:00       ` William Dale
2000-10-09  0:00         ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-09  0:00       ` Lao Xiao Hai
2000-09-29  0:00   ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-09-29  0:00     ` Jeff Creem
2000-09-29  0:00       ` William Dale
2000-09-29  0:00   ` Marin David Condic
2000-09-28  0:00 ` Michael S. Simpson
2000-09-29  0:00   ` Ehud Lamm
2000-10-29  0:47 ` Daniel Allex
2000-10-29  1:49   ` Martin
2000-10-29 11:59     ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-10-29 14:13       ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-30 17:30         ` John Cupak
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