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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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Comparing rate of leakage at 40,000 feet with leakage at sea level:
$$
\frac {L _ {4 0}}{L _ {0}} = \sqrt {\frac {2 7}{1 1 2} \cdot \frac {1 8 8}{1 0 1 3} \cdot \frac {2 8 8}{2 1 8}} = 0. 2 4 3
$$
Comparing rate of leakage at 100,000 feet with leakage at sea level:
$$
\frac {L _ {1 0 0}}{L _ {0}} = \sqrt {\frac {2 7}{1 8 8 0} \cdot \frac {1 0 . 9}{1 0 1 3} \cdot \frac {2 8 8}{2 1 8}} = 0. 0 4 4
$$
Therefore, if leakage of a full balloon at sea level is known, it is possible to compute theoretical leakage at any altitude. However, if it is not possible to completely inflate a balloon on the ground in order to make a sea level test (if lift would be great enough to rupture balloon or load lines), a method of comparing full balloon leakage with partially full balloon leakage must be found.
Let us assume that it is possible to obtain results of a leakage test for a balloon inflated to a volume $ \frac{1}{x} $ of fullballoon volume. Again starting with equation (1):
$$
Q = C _ {d} A \sqrt {2 g h}
$$
We see that in this case the total area of openings, A is not constant but is a function of volume. Therefore, we have:
$$
Q \propto A \sqrt {h}
$$
We have shown that:
$$
h = \frac {\Delta p}{d _ {g}} \cdot 1 4 4 = \frac {\Delta z \left(\frac {d p}{d z}\right) _ {\mathrm {a i r} (1 - B)}}{d _ {g}} \cdot 1 4 4
$$
Since we are comparing partially inflated balloon leakage at sea level with full balloon leakage at sea level the variable in the above expression is $ \Delta z $ . This is graphically illustrated in Figure 24. 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.