- . ..— 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. 26’ SIZTION XII :’.