2010 The memorandum is talking about lethal bombs, and so the predictive model must be precise. The research memorandum states at the outset that “[t]hese equations assume a flat Earth.” 14 Again, when precision is required in calculations, it is necessary for the U.S. Army to assume the reality of a flat earth.

A 2001 report from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory was titled: Electromagnetic Fields Over Flat Earth. 15 And sure enough, the U.S. Army Research Laboratory “assumed that the transmitting antenna and the target (or receiver) are located above, but near the surface of a flat idealized earth.”

In a research project on atmospheric oscillations conducted for NASA by the Georgia Institute of Technology, the researchers acknowledged that a flat, nonrotating earth is a common model used by scientists. “A model frequently used is that of a flat, nonrotating earth.

In a 253 page Master of Science thesis paper published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, about targeting systems, “[t]hree targeting methods were considered: assuming a flat Earth.” 18 What is significant about the research paper is that it addresses precision guided munitions targeting.