Also mentioned in this meeting just above and in a message on 26 December is the
S-6 Coordinating Staff, which became known as the SPAIN Coordinating Committee, whic
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Richard Moss of the AEC in Los Angeles is supposed to convene as necessary to oversee
coordination of construction in the Pacific.
ield of AFSWC to the Conf érees is the
w= A 26 December letter from A Col. Redf
raft
Planning Conference on Additional Airc
minutes of the conference entitled "Pre
Information was passed CL
19 December.
Instrumentation," held at Kirtland on
and
Uu
for diagnostics of the two C130B's
out on the equipment and capabilities
h belong to
well as the 2 KCI35 Aircraft, whic
which have been so configured, as
and.
ASD and ESD of the Air Force Systems Comm
at the
ESD KCI35 (tail Number
LASL stated that they would look Tt
131) and consider the existing.
hardware in that
for an additional airborne instrumentation
aircraft versus the LASL requirements
135 instrumented like the ASD 135 (tail
platform. LRL stated a requirement for a
fication of certain previously recorded
number 127) for airborne diagnostic veri
to make their requirements a matter of
unknowns. Both laboratories were asked
ll! requirements for the Bluestraw
record -to the chief of DASA. The overa
one
KC135's one at the conjugate point and
objectives showed the DOD requirging 2
at Johnston Island and LASL requiring a 1308 and requesting a 135 with LRL in
the same position.
Some mention was made of the sampler aircraft situation
in that the Air Force would provide 15 B57's but could not fill the Laboratories
requirement of 22 aircraft,
10 of which would be B57D's.
The fact \that the
Air Force has in its inventory sufficient B57D's was noted but the priorities
make only 4 of these available.
The question of using U2 aircraft was discussed.
On December 22, Starbird sent a TWX to Ogle outlining the specific items which
he desires to cover with Bill on Wednesday.
They are: the acceptability of
Liberty ships adsubsti tutes for PMR ships as the 2 Lab vessels; the size and
location of danger areas; the study of tidal effects on Hawaii; the possibility
and desirability of adding a safety length to prevent surface burst of
large
detonation; what needs to be done to prepare ajauthoritative statement that
there will be no serious eye burn problem; the standoff distance for ships
from a base surge point-of-view; and the materials and people that need to be
sent to Jarvis
Isfand and the time schedule for this.
CL