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726; "and her colleagues at R.A.F. Medmenham [who] discovered the Rocket back in 1943 in recco photographs of Peenemünde"; Babington conducted aeri The Rocket described as "black-and-white bad news" 209; "Dominus Blicero" 30; white -

...ket Noon, two circular explosions inside the rush hour" 501; "ev'ry day at Rocket Noon, there's death, and revelry" 508; "what's shadowless noon and what isn

162, 416: '''Raketenflugplatz:''' rocket site<br /> 230: '''Volksgrenadier: Setzt V-2 ein!:''' People's Unit: Deploy a V-2!<br />

...d sections"), 398; "couldn't even go to the movies" 402; filming gauges on rocket flights, 406-07; successive stills, 407; "the moving images of a daughter"

151; civilian town which the RAF bombed on Palm Sunday, provoking German rocket attacks on London; Leni grew up there, 162; angel, 217; Lübeck Hitler Yout

...ments with secret weapons, which investigation led to the discovery of the rocket facilities at Peenemünde; "the P.M.'s son-in-law" who works out of the Min ...eographical way, a Diaspora running backwards" 737; as womb, 750; See also Rocket

looked at rocket-bomb disasters for ACHTUNG, 19 "a rocket with his name written on it" 25

...ance Babington-Smith and her colleagues at R.A.F. Medmenham discovered the Rocket back in 1943 in recco photographs of Peenemünde" the rising sun striking the rocket's exhaust, 6; "his rainbowed Valkyrie over Peenemünde" 151; "all around th

...e from which most of the A-4s that fell on London in the initial months of rocket attack were launched. The attacks began at 6:43 p.m., September 8, 1944. ...ng about that?'" 207; "The Schwarzkommando use the 50 cm band--the one the Rocket's Hawaii II guidance operated on." 325; See also Puke-a-hook-a-look-i Islan

403; German rocket scientist killed in 1934 in explosion in Kummersdorf; "First blood, first s ...also [[C#cosmicbomb|Cosmic Bomb]]; [[K#kingtiger|King Tiger]]; [[R#rocket|Rocket]]; [[S#schwarzgerat|Schwarzgerät]]

...gnia, illustrated, 361; KEZVH, 446; Schwarzkommando, 560; four fins of the Rocket, 563; "other fourfold expressions" 624; "fatal mandala" 691; discussed at G ...rman cartoonist Wilhelm Busch; "boy at the steering panel" and man "at the rocket motor panel," respectively, at launching of S-Gerät 00000; [http://en.wiki

151; location of German rocket development and production on island of Usedom at mouth of Peene River on t 416; German rocket engineer: "work in devising a cooling system for the propulsion

...ore Russians take over, 295; "Nordhausen means dwellings in the north. The Rocket had to be produced out of a place called Nordhausen." 322; 718 [[MAP]]

See Rocket; [[V-1 Rocket]] '''V-2'''<br />

...g man is Faustian man. But while this book offers such Faustian types as a rocket genius named Captain Blicero and a Pavlovian behaviorist named Edward Point

...ation is that the title "Gravity's Rainbow" refers to the shape of the V-2 rocket's trajectory, a rainbow-shaped parabola caused by gravity. This derives mos ...described by this map is ''Gravity's Rainbow'' &#151; the parabola of the rocket vs the arc of the rainbow, but also the whole range of life as seen in the

...l companies; that the secret, real history of the world is a conspiracy of rocket-makers; that Death's reign is at hand; that America is Europe's colony of D ...e largest paranoia of all comes true, comforting and terminal, the falling rocket explicitly connected once again with the hand of God.

...ot</b> a description of the sound actually made in target zones by the V-2 rocket, which was typically -- depending on the auditor's location -- the sharp "c Pirate's decision after a paragraph on the inevitablity of the rocket's flight can remind one of a famous Buddhist sutra on picking a strawberry:

...and the damage caused by the bombing during the Second World War: one V-2 rocket alone destroyed a Woolworth's store outside Deptford Town Hall, killing 160

...ndent: even if a given square kilometer of London has already received 100 rocket strikes today, it is still just as likely to be hit again as any other squa As Roger patiently explains, no rocket is influenced by what previous rockets have done, any more than the roulet

...e intercepted by anti-aircraft guns and propeller-driven fighters. The V-2 rocket, at 3500 mph outside the atmosphere and half that speed on impact, could no

...ir hiding place for literally tons on research documents pertaining to the rocket and supersonic flight."</blockquote> ...were at war while the Kerensky government was in office. (In fact, German rocket research began in earnest only after 1929, when Hermann Oberth published ''

...ichael Neufeld writes that after the August 1943 attack on Peenemunde, the rocket works were moved to an abandoned underground storage facility. The tunnels ...says, the tunnels are suggestive of the '''double integral''', translating rocket acceleration into a point -- the Brennschluss point. And as noted above, h

...n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Oberth Hermann Oberth], the pioneer of German rocket science, inventor of liquid-fuel propulsion, consultant on [[http://gravity ...ough some arithmetic, and you get the current position and velocity of the rocket... leading to the right moment to shut down the engine (Brennschluss).<br>

...?p=6 a tilted camera-angle]. "From overhead" implies a German bomber's (or rocket's) view. 230.21-22 '''Volksgrenadier: setz V-2 ein!'''<br>

[[image:rocket-insignia.jpg|thumb|200px|right]]361.5 '''insigne'''<br /> ...1942. The photo shows the V3 insigne, a (less than) pretty witch astride a rocket, carrying her obsolete broom. The color illustration is an artist's impress

...consists of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. This stage accelerated the rocket through the upper atmosphere. So, Rocketman's cry of "Hauptstufe!" might b ...largely serviceable. Hauptstufe is final. Throttles are fully opened, the rocket takes off and hopefully clears the launchpad. If it does not and falls down

...-wife and collaborator Thea von Harbou. It was released in the USA as ''By Rocket to the Moon'', and in the UK as ''Woman in the Moon''.

No, there's never a frown, here in Rocket,

...raphical characters in the book: '''A''' and '''--'''. If the first is the rocket waiting to fly, the last is the flattened impact site with nothing left sta

...Elsewhere, Statistician Roger Mexico plots the distribution pattern of the rocket strikes according to a probability equation. But his data is no help. The o ...t and fire it off. Aimed at what and for what purpose? Who knows? Making a rocket from scrounged parts seems to be like making a philosophical system or a my

'''Rocket Power'''<br /> ...topical (in that its central mystery is not a cryptogram but a supersonic rocket), and more nuanced, ''Gravity's Rainbow'' is even less easy to assimilate i