“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…
~G = G X ~X (1 • K) K
T
where t::.. G = loss of lift
G =gross load (balloon weight plus
equipment load)
AT : mean temperature difference in
lifting gas before and after sunset
T =free air temperature
K = specific gravity of lifting gas,
relative to air
The specific gravity of 98,% helium, diluted with air, and with
respect to air, is 0.157. It maybe noted that with a lower specific
gravity of a gas, lower ballast corrections are required. Hydrogen, for
example, requires half the ballast Which helium requires for the same
temperature differential. At high altitudes, a difference of 40°C may
be expected in the temperature of the lifting helium from day to night.
This would correspond to a loss of lift ut sunset, on a General Mills 20-
foot balloon, or about 550 grams.
F. Internal Pressure
The maximum internal pressure which can be held within a
spherical container is given by Timoshenko8 :
P • 28 u x t
I"
where Su is the ultimate strength of the material
in tension, t is thickness or the material and r is the radius or the spherical
shape. Applying this equation to a polyethylene film, such as used in the
General :Mills 20-foot balloons, Su at room temperature : 1900 psi., t =0.001",
and r : 10 ft., giving the maximum pressure, P =0.032 psi. This pressure is·
equivalent to about 1.1 inches of water, or 2.5 mb. This small bursting pres-
sure necessitates proper inflation and load values to prevent the balloon's
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