M& D Deep Ducking. Latitudes and Departures

[Monte Davis]

​One number along a line, another for displacement at right angles to the
line (or "Into the Woods," as a Visto cutter might say).

Formally identical to the "station number" coordinates in an A4 blueprint
-- where does the S-Gerat fit? -- that the Schwarzkommando demand of
Fahringer, GR 455-456:


"What was your job?”

“Weight control. All they wanted from me was the shift in CG [center of
gravity] 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..."

An industrial surveyor's son, engineering student, Boeing technical writer
is careful to align such grids.

http://viz.aset.psu.edu/gho/sem_notes/3d_fundamentals/gifs/transformed_axes.gif

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On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 7:14 AM, M Thomas Stevenson <
m.thomas.stevenson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh god yeah, sorry, trying to use shorthand: yeah the term is the latitude
> and the departure. Name of the lines.
>
> On 7 January 2015, at 12:13, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is L&D the terminology they use, though? Does it stand for something?
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 11:09 PM, M Thomas Stevenson
> <m.thomas.stevenson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > From other thread:
> >
> > My partner's dad is a land surveyor, and me being interested in
> anything, I got to talking to him about his job, how it works etc.. . .
> Basically L&D is the north-south line (L) and the east to west line (D) of
> a kind-of grid. You use them in conjunction with one another to calculate
> the place of something on the grid. N-S, Scottish-Southerner; E-W,
> Britain-America. . .?
> >
> > . . . But this explains it better:
> http://www.cfr.washington.edu/classes.esrm.304/Spring2011/Documents/Hurvitz_Schiess/procedures/latitudes_and_departures.html
> >
> > On 7 January 2015, at 10:47, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Alice's remark on Departures as deaths reminded me that we did not riff
> on
> > Latitudes and Departures. A change-up from the expected Latitudes and
> > Longitudes.
> >
> > I skipped right over, mentally. Alice's association with Departures.
> > -
> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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