Rocket Stamp

[Otto]

"The image here is an elargement of a postage stamp from the last days
of the Third Reich showing the launch of five Victory Rockets, the
V-2, towards London. (I bought it on ebay, where else?) For dramatic
effect, the artist has shown the rockets taking off at steep angle
rather than vertically, as they would have been launched. When they
reached the point at which their engines would cut out, brenschluss,
the rockets would continue on their way, “pure ballastic”, powered
solely by the force of gravity, describing a rainbow parabolic arc to
their explosive terminus in England."
(...)
http://iamyouasheisme.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/pynchon/

http://iamyouasheisme.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/v2-stamp.jpg