GR translation: Station numbers

[Monte Davis]

BTW, I (and probably town surveyor's son Tom Pynchon) first encountered
station numbers in road construction: pick an arbitrary zero point along the
right of way, and then specify any other point ("station") along the length
of the project as plus or minus NNN.N feet/meters, sometimes with another
number for an offset left or right of the centerline.

So in the GR context, it's simply laying a grid over the complex structure
of the V2 and using its "map" coordinates rather than saying "12.9
centimeters above the weld line at the top of the fins" or the like. TRP
does indeed love (/hate) his maps and grids.     

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http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/engineering/9780071801508/2dot-aircraft
-structures/c2_3_html


From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
Of Mike Jing
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 4:48 AM
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Subject: GR translation: Station numbers

V455.35-456.4   “What was your job?”
       “Weight control. All they wanted from me was the shift in CG for a
device of a given weight. The weight was classified top secret.
Forty-something kilos. 45? 46?”
       “Station numbers,” raps Andreas from over Enzian’s shoulder.
       “I can’t remember. It was in the tail section. I do remember the load
was asymmetrical about the longitudinal axis. Toward Vane III. That was the
vane used for yaw control—”
       “We know that.”
What are these "station numbers" exactly?

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