Sweeter-tasting fish meant rivers in the offing; groups of birds, homing in the evening, showed him where land lay.He began to learn all this as a baby, when his grandfather, himself a master navigator, held his tiny body in tidal pools to teach him how waves and wind blew differently from place to place.
Online brokers such as Charles Schwab, on the other hand, are homing in on the mass affluent as part of a plan to move upmarket and away from simple share trading.
Firms flirted with all sorts of businesses before homing in on patented pharmaceuticals as the model for modern big drugmakers.
He is torn between homing and roaming, but homing gets short shrift.
His doctoral work on the problems of control and guidance of high-speed aircraft proved valuable in the development of automatic flight control, automatic tracking equipment, homing systems for guided missiles, and intercontinental ballistic missile control systems.
These included the SA-10 Grumble, a Mach-6 mobile system with a 60-mile range deployed in both strategic and tactical versions; the SA-11 Gadfly, a Mach-3 semiactive radar homing system with a range of 17 miles; the SA-12 Gladiator, a track-mobile replacement of Ganef; the SA-13 Gopher, a replacement for Gaskin; and the SA-14, a shoulder-fired Grail replacement.
Often, the vehicles also carried a laser designator for homing munitions.
After 1956 the Talos was supplemented by the Terrier, a radar-beam rider, and the Tartar, a semiactive radar homing missile.
Active guidance was commonly used for terminal homing.
Many antiship missiles and some long-range air-to-air missiles, therefore, used inertial guidance to reach the general vicinity of their targets and then active radar guidance for terminal homing.
Handheld antiaircraft missiles, or man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS), using optical sighting and infrared homing devices like the Stinger missile, have been used effectively against fighters and helicopters in conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other areas.
