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b. Because the upper wind conditio~ were so critical, it was
decided to make more frequent balloon sotiiw.

Since the frequency

of wind soundingsby the wetitherstation at Euiwetok was limited by
the Cap&cI~J of their hydrogen generatore~ a suPP~ of hel~m w- tie
avail~ble to the weather stdion by the WQS Albemarle for the purpose
of allowing ~ greater number of wind runs to be made.
c. Becwse of engine trouble, the weather recomaissme
scouting the Weather b

aircraft

the zero ar- duri~ the earq hCUM prior to

‘i@ Eour returned to baee, and the atmospheric sounding to a scheduled
height of 310,000feet was aot obt&inetL
L

The position of the weather reconnaissanceaircraft was not

tilv~s reliably bown and hence the reports were not representativeof
the local ar~

lhture procedurewill be to orbit on e+circle of 15

to 24Jmiles radius from the zero point in order to maintain a good
ag~

on the e=c~ location of the observed cloudinessand showers.
e. Very close monitoring of the communlcatlonesystems wa8 ma-

tained to insure the early and timely receipt of all weather information
that was being taken for Peter SRuy Deg. The receipt of all weather
dataw~a satisfactory.

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SIZTION XII
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