F35 tail hook doesn't work

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2012/01/dn-design-blamed-for-f35c-tailhook-issues-011712/

All kinds of super fancy CAD programs to help design and engineer and yet when it comes for the most basic of tasks you still end up with a failure. They have been landing planes on aircraft carriers for many decades. It is not a new concept. To spend hundreds of billions and end up with that kind of failure is sad.

In the case of the F-35, one of those dynamic forces includes the way the wires react when the jet passes over them. The wire reacts in a sine wave pattern, Burbage said. “The time differential between when the main gear rolls over the cable and the time the hook picks up the cable on a more convention airplane, there is more time for that wave to damp out,” he said. “In the case of the F-35, one of our design constraints is that hook just has to be closer to the main landing gear than on a conventional aircraft because of the requirement to hide it inside the airplane.”