“Headquarters”29 pages
- p. 1 THE
ROSWELL
REPORT
Fact versus Fiction
in the
New Mexico Desert
Headquarters United States Air Force…
- p. 7 Clinical Investigations and Life Sciences Division, Headquarters Air Force Medical
Operating Agency, Bolling AFB, DC; John…
- p. 28 …the disc had been "flown to higher headquarters." That same
story also reported that a Roswell…
- p. 30 …These locations
include Fort Worth, Texas, the home of the Eighth Air Force Headquarters;
possibly Sandia…
- p. 71 DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
MEMORANDUM FOR
FROM: AFiiN
SUBJECT:
References…
- p. 75 …DuBose says
officials at the Headquarters of the Eighth Air Force were
directed to tell the…
- p. 81 DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON DC
MEMORANDUM FOR SAF/AAZ…
- p. 89 DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
09 Mar94
MEMORANDUMFORSAF/AAZ
ATIENTION: Lt…
- p. 107 …Colonel Loberg,
Headquarters, Eighth Air Force, arrived this date to
coordinate with S-3 and check…
- p. 108 …Boatright,
Headquarters, Eighth Air Force, arrived to coordinate with
Statistical Control on cost analysis.
16 July…
- p. 133 HEADQUARTERS, ARMY AIR FORCES
WASHINGTON
SUBJECT: Iuuance o! Ordera
!01 Couaa8.1ng General
.A.1r Materiel…
- p. 144 …we haven't s~uadron or grou~
headquarters should take their people away.
1:55 P…
- p. 159 …I did not make a report of this incident to my headquarters since I felt that…
- p. 165 …700 CIC was the CIC Headquarters.
- p. 166 …700 CIC was the Headquarters?
SC: Yes, I don't think I even made a report…
- p. 167 …I think this was taken at the Headquarters at Carswell.
RW: Yeah, that's right. That…
- p. 168 …I took it to 8th Air Force Headquarters, General Ramey was excited; they were
going to…
- p. 177 …I don't even want 700 CIC Headquarters to know we wasted our time on it…
- p. 178 …So that, to me, implies that this would have been
your CIC Headquarters also sent some…
- p. 227 …I was assigned, believe it or not, to Headquarters, Air
Force .•• I still have the Headquarters…
- p. 265 …on the basis of orders out of Headquarters
Army Air Force.
Q: While you were operating…
- p. 266 …These are the pictures taken in General Ramey's office,
8th Air Force Headquarters by a…
- p. 282 …Then after I left the headquarters of ARDC in
Baltimore, I spent four years at the…
- p. 318 …debris be flown to Eighth
Air Force Headquarters at Fort Worth AAF, TX, for his personal…
- p. 327 …Andrews AAF was headquarters
of the Army Air Forces Weather Service. It is also interesting to…
- p. 407 HEADQUARTERS FITZWILLIAM FORWARD
c/o Commander, Task Group 7.2
APO 187, c/o Postmaster
San…
- p. 409 …arrival of the explo-
sion sound wave. Headquarters FITZ\nlliArA FCRI1ARD furnished ARPACAS 3-1 and…
- p. 964 …Morgan, from Headquarters Eighth Air
Force, ;'las here to confer with the Engineering Officer,
Captain ?cterson…
- p. 984 …Marcellus Duffy eliminated
it and several others from the project when Headquarters U.S.
Army Air…
Flight lOa Relea1edtrom Alamogordo, New Mexico, 0601 MST, July 6, 1947
Not recovered
!hie flight wa1 the first to use a large plastic balloon as the lifting
vehicle. !he oell was spherical, 16 teet in diameter, and the walls were
.ooa• polyethylene heat sealed at the seams (made by Harold A. Smith, Inc.).
1he altitude control was an automatic ballast valve, pressure-triggered to
throw ott liquid ballast. !he equipment train used on this flight is shown
in Figure 5.
IS' d•a.-.ooe• t"•cK polyethylene
"""""' Ba.lloon. H.A..Sm.th l"C.
"'"""'• Re•nforced blo"'·out p•tch to be
Open Appe nclur.
Pr~savre opetatiHI MlLIUt v•lve
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.' ot ,.......... IIU. IWthlt.
ope ned by T1me -clo~k.
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test, I~' lo ...,, .servecl toea t"unble
o.nd catto.ched to ~~~~~ fo~ced po.tches
o.t o.lternclte .seo.ma.
Po.vlocad
74.5 me. Ro.d•o•onde :,.,,th to' ... ~
fed. o.ntenno.. Hea.vy cluty '-a
1n blo.tl< bollu,,.t.,.tllvt•n•
wro.pped.
Plo.at•c b•U.o.at R• .. rvoar '-litll
3,000 9~ bo.lLa.at.
Figure 6: Train, Flight 10
The balloon rose to about 16,000 teet MSL and dropped back to 9000 teet
MSL where_ it "floated" tor at least 4 hours, at which time radiosonde re-
ception tailed. It ia believed that the automatic ballast valve sealed ott
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