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The Roswell Report: Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert was published by Headquarters United States Air Force in 1995. The Black Vault distributes this copy. It reproduces the report by Col. Richard L. Weaver and the synopsis by 1st Lt. James McAndrew, both written after a General Accounting Office inquiry requested by Representative Steven Schiff. The Air Force search found no evidence of an extraterrestrial craft or crew. It concluded that the Roswell debris most likely came from NYU Flight No. 4, a Project MOGUL balloon train.
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this switch a circuit is closed when the rate of descent exceeds 1/5 mb/minute, allowing ballast to flow. The record of Flight 97 indicates that good control was obtained for a four hour period using this switch. However, the instrument is so delicate and susceptible to temperature effects that its use is not advised.
## E. Flight Simulation
To make laboratory tests on the control equipment just described, a flight-simulation chamber has been built combining a bell jar and a temperature chamber. A drawing of the temperature chamber designed and built at New York University is shown in Figure 17. (Investigation of commercially sold chambers showed that the cost of purchasing a temperature chamber of the size desired would be prohibitive.) First designs called for the use of a freon refrigerating system; however, use of dry ice as a coolant proved to be more advantageous. This chamber, with its automatic control, can hold temperatures as high as $ + 1 0 0^{\circ} \mathrm{F} $ and as low as $ - 9 0^{\circ} \mathrm{F} $ within 50 for a period of several hours. Dry ice consumption at $ - 6 0^{\circ} \mathrm{F} $ is approximately 150 pounds for a 24-hour period.
LOWEST WORKING TEMP. -65° To -70°C ACCURACY OF TEMP CONTROL 0.5°C
Figure 17. Temperature control chamber.
It is possible, using a bell jar for flight-similitude studies, to arrange switches so that the vacuum pump is turned off and on at Report, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 882 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.