I have a trivia question which I hope can be answered without diverting the discusion. Of course I know that the 'J' in JSF stands for 'Committee', always a bad letter in US program parlance, but where the heck does 'Dave' come from? I've tried googling but everyone points back to pprune and says it originated here.
mike-wsm - the name 'Dave' for JSF comes from this thread of 2006:
http://www.pprune.org/military-aircr...-name-jsf.html
It was first suggested by Just This Once (along with Colin) and it stuck in the absence of a real name at the time.