GR - a technical query (IG methods etc.)

[Michael Lee Bailey]

Hey Monte, I was hoping you would chime in to clarify this one!

Your post corrects a misapprehension of mine: I thought "radio
methods" would be Weissmann on the ground signaling Brennschluss,
but it isn't.  What he's doing, of course, is ordering Hauptsufe.


BTW, I bought your book on Catastrophe Theory
(now to find time to read it)


Monte Davis wrote:
> ....Alternately, the guidance system can receive signals from two or more >radio sources (a la GPS, today's Global Positioning System) and use >trigonometry to calculate its position. This was planned for the V2 and >tested, but never became operational AFAIK. Used extensively by bombers. 
 
>Either way, the transition from *powered* and *controlled* flight to >*ballistic* trajectory -- governed only by gravity, all its future implicit >in this moment,  fated and irreversible -- is a central metaphor, >arguably *the* central metaphor, of the book. Or at least that's the subtle >hint *I* take from the title :-)