The Forschungsamt (or Goering’s Research Bureau) was the reason I was hunting around for information , its name popped up now and then but there was very little information about it. This was Goering’s pet [more…]
A shorter update this time, primarily due to other activites taking precedence – not weather related over the past weeks, but the Easter holidays threw routines out of the window. The eldest came home and [more…]
Michael Barnsley is an English mathematician born in 1946. The code developed by Barnsley is an example of an iterated function system. The code is composed of four affine transformations. of the code is the [more…]
One of the lesser known parts of German Signals Intelligence was the Radio Defence Corps of the Armed Forces. Their main function was to monitor clandestine radio transmissions within Germany and later German controlled areas. [more…]
In part two we learned about the highly successful second generation 737, now known as the “Classic”. We also touched on the emergence of a new competitor. In this part we’ll take a look at [more…]
This is also known as the ‘half or triple plus one’ problem. Let be any arbitrary positive integer. If is even, then divide it by two. Otherwise, if is odd, then multiply it by three [more…]
Failure , such a negative word but there are degrees. The Germans’ biggest failure was to not find out about the Allies cracking their military Enigma machines as well as two types of teletype. They [more…]
The roots of the Internet are military, as everyone knows. One of the earliest projects of the military computer age, alongside automated discrimination of ICBM radar trajectories to separate them from harmless civilian traffic, tactical [more…]
In part one we covered the genesis of the 737 and its troubled early years where at times it seemed as if the 737 was hanging on by its fingernails in a tough market dominated [more…]
Computer generated graphics have improved enormously over the last forty years. The first computer generated graphic of the Mandelbrot set : A contemporary zooming animation : I particularly like these new images and animations because [more…]
Published by The Random House Publishing Group [US] and Allen Lane [UK] (2007); Penguin Books (2008) ISBN 978-0-141-03459-1 Nassim Nicholas Taleb doesn’t shy away from voicing his opinions, even when they lead to controversy. One [more…]
With spring just around the corner, allegedly, this winter project should be coming to a close, but so far there is little sign of that. The return of the eldest son from Uni meant decamping [more…]
The following is a description of the course of a typical American heavy bomber raid and , as in the case of the example of an RAF raid , represents tactics during the latter years [more…]
I think most of us here don’t get terribly excited at the thought of the Boeing 737. It’s quite mundane, unremarkable, pedestrian even. I suspect more than a few of us here have been herded [more…]
This is not going be easy writing about this. However, as a challenge, I was asked about writing an article on this by Judas was paid. I have no idea why he requested it. Sorry, but [more…]
The following depicts the sequence of events in a night raid, showing how , in the latter years of the war , it could be identified by SIS, and advance warning given: 17:00 Lancaster units [more…]
How successful were the Germans with the Signals Intelligence during WW2 and even just before. We have grown used to the astounding success of Ultra and possibly associate success with breaking an almost unbreakable code [more…]
Western civilisation, and Britain in particular, can be credited with creating the World as we know it. The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime [more…]
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