Pretty cool bug list

Noticed a news story about problems in a new fighter plane called F-35 Lightning II. The story included a visual list of known serious bugs on the plane, which you can see here.

Pretty nice and compact, high-level list of bugs represented in a seemingly understandable fashion. My next project manager, expect to see my next list of known bugs in flash (at last the graphical design course I attended in school will come in handy)...

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