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UXKE:
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16 Janvery 1957
0b, yes, on something like the CURTISS, tut you'd have @ maintenance probien.
“FELT: «What about helicopter transportation? Well, I suppose if you pursue the
helicopters and have then for soue other reason, then you probably wind up
putting & helicopter platform on your shot barge.
REC:
We've gone through this helicopter platform on the shot barge several times
before, but for safety reasons, it’s elways been killed.
FELT:
I daresay, if you had the helicopters around for some other reason, you'd very |
shortly wind up with gs helicopter barge perked in there someplace.
CORRY:
What you'd probably Like to have if you're going to have a special ship, is
one with a boom large enough to hoist an ICM, and a platform large enough to
hold « couple of coptera.
GIBBINS: I'm convinmeed in my ovn mind that the way UCRL would like to operate in there
is from an efloat set-up, and hold the cost of installations ashore to an
absolute minimim, even to the point of making the people a little uncorfortable.
FELT:
I thirk ve should begin to think about Listing some of our assumptions, hoping
to aiscover what the wajor areas are that we ought to investigate more thoroughly.
We've tossed around a lot of assumptions and ideas, and they're all
perfectly valid assumptions.
‘They fit someplace into this picture; some of
them cre pertinent when considering them in one light, but they are not ‘per- —
tinent in another.
LUCKE:
Well, this one on the airstrip.
I think that, certainly, the requirezent for
an airstrip, other than UCRL is one field we have to examine.
YELY:
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GATTIS:
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Yes, I think that's true.
Yesterday, I telked with Colonel Hynes at 7.4, and he had beard the rumor of
Taongi, but this wasin an informel stage and they had not done any serious
thinking on the problea 1 told them that Walt vould be here today and ve
would appreciate their feelings on the subject.
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They couldn't come to the
conference, but Tt got a cell from him @ short time ago end he said thet on
‘sampling, it would have to be done with B-ST's > which ve had already concluded.
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