The problems are far from fixed. But at least some of the U.S. stealth fighters are now allowed to start flying again. The rest are grounded until God knows when.

The U.S. military cleared 20 Joint Strike Fighters to resume flight testing on Thursday, after spending the last two-and-a-half weeks on the tarmac. On August 2, a valve malfunctioned on one plane’s Integrated Power Package; the flaw was deemed serious enough that the entire F-35 fleet was forbidden to fly.

The issue hasn’t been resolved, nor is anyone quite sure how to make things right. “An Air Force Safety Investigation Board con...

Left: Michael Wolf; right: Jon Rafman.

During the research for Raw File’s gallery earlier this week, Google’s Mapping Tools Spawn New Breed of Art Projects, I noticed several seemingly identical images in the projects of Jon Rafman and Michael Wolf. But in my discussions with the artists, I found it interesting that they considered them completely different images, altered by their own hand.

I decided to explore how a casual observer who hasn’t spent years thinking about authorship, photography and the nature of art and artist may dismiss the images as obviously identical, but an art history b...