“Fort Worth”32 pages
- p. 12 …Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, July 9, 1947
17. Satement, Lt. Col. Sheridan…
- p. 13 …Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, July 9, 1947
2. Organizational Chart, Watson Laboratories…
- p. 30 …These locations
include Fort Worth, Texas, the home of the Eighth Air Force Headquarters;
possibly Sandia…
- p. 34 …DC;
Federal Records Center, Ft Worth, TX; the INSCOM Archives, Fort Meade, MD;
National Air and…
- p. 38 …in the famous photos (Atch 16) in Fort Worth was that of a
radar target normally…
- p. 39 …were told was a flying saucer to Fort Worth. The people on
board included ... and Maj…
- p. 40 …Newton was a weather officer assigned to Fort Worth, who was on duty when
the Roswell…
- p. 45 …photographs taken at the time by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, that depicted
Ramey and Marcel…
- p. 46 …the wreckage prior to its getting to Fort Worth. This organization
reported on July 20, 1994…
- p. 51 …After the autopsies, conspiracy theorists said
the bodies were flown to Fort Worth and then
to…
- p. 75 …Some of the debris was flown to Fort Worth,
..as where the Commander of the Eighth…
- p. 101 …Center (WNRq or the Southwest Regional
Depository (Fort Worth, Texas).
Recommendations
Because the records management policy…
- p. 151 16
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Photographs of Balloon Debris
July 9, 1947
- p. 159 …taken to Eighth AU- Force
Headquarters in Fort Worth where it was subsequently identified as a…
- p. 167 …Marcel took it to Fort Worth. Yeah that's the ...
RW: ·Yeah. That doesn't look…
- p. 168 …into Wright-Pat
and Kirtland, or to Fort Worth. Back and forth, loaded up, with very…
- p. 174 …Then it said: "After Marcel had gone to Fort Worth and came back Marcel
challenged the…
- p. 176 …O.K."Marcel would take some ofthe sample to Fort Worth to show Ramey. In the…
- p. 179 normal course of his duty was sent to Washington not 8th Air Force in Fort Worth…
- p. 254 …But the Roswell morning paper
clearly showed that there was a knowledgeable person in Fort
Worth…
- p. 266 …Headquarters by a news photographer of the Fort
Worth Star Telegram. It's four pictures that…
- p. 309 …I was the only weather forecaster on duty in the Fort Worth base weather
and flight…
- p. 318 …flown to Eighth
Air Force Headquarters at Fort Worth AAF, TX, for his personal inspection. Upon…
- p. 326 …Before the announcement was made, the "disc" was flown to Fort Worth AAF,
at the direction…
- p. 327 …giant thermos jug" was allegedly transported
from Fort Worth AAF to Wright Field. 38 This description…
- p. 329 designs on it."41 Furthermore, the Fort Worth Army Airfield Weather Officer,
Irving Newton, who was…
- p. 333 Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Photographs of Balloon Debris
July 9, 1947
1
- p. 640 …Similarly, the Fort Worth Sub-Committee established a procedure
for flights made within the Fort V1orth…
- p. 707 …Air Coordinating Committee, Fort Worth Regional
Airspace Subcommittee.
Subject: Obstructions to ·air navigation ••••.•••••••••••••••••••••••••• 43
Memorandum from…
- p. 713 …Secretary a
SUBJECT
AIR COORDINATING COMMITTEE
FORT WORTH REGIONAL AIRSPACE SUBCOMMITTEE
P. O. BOX 1689
FORT…
- p. 715 …BOX 1689
FORT WORm 1_ mxAS
September 2, 1947
C1-tairman, Ft. Worth Regional Airspace Subcommittee…
- p. 812 …Arrived in
Fort Worth about 9 EDST. Off again to Big Springs, Texas, where forced to…
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The physical and chemical properties needed in a balloon material
are: (l) chemical stability, (2) low permeability, (3) high tensile
atrengtb, (4) low brittle temperature, (5) high tear resistance,
(6) high transparency to heat radiation and (7) light weight.
In Table 1 the properies of 7 plastics and 2 coated materials are
given. From this data polyethylene and saran appear to be the most
sui table films.
Table l
!Low Temper- 1 Penne- : Tensile . Tear Re-i Ease of' I Stability to
~ture Prop-· ability 1 Strength i sistance 1 Fabrioa- 1Ultraviolet
. erties l · tion 1
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high IIlose
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!Nylon or sill '
fabric ooa tee
~ith:
Neoprene Fair Low High Fair Fair Fair
Butyl Good Low High Fair Fair Good
rubber
Having decided upon the proper fabric to be used, an effort was
made to interest a number or companies in the fabrication and
production of balloons. The first supplier or balloon• ..d. or
·polyethylene was Harold A. Smith, Inc., lfame.roneck, lrew York.
In these balloons, 4 and 8 mil sheets were heat sealed to to~
a spherical cell open at the bottom. Load attachment tabs were
set into the fabric and loading lines ran from these taba to a
load ring. This method of' supporting the load proved to be un-
sa ti sfac tory.
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