Station 56 — The Aomon Group - NBS, The sketches for this station
were furnished March 18, 1950, Originally two of these stations were
required, but the one on Bogallua was deleted at the time the test on
Bogallua was removed from the program, The station was essentially the
same as the Station 55 except that the inside dimensions were set at

13 feet, 6 inches by 15 feet by 6 feet, 6 inches high,

The structural

drawings were completed on June 6, 1950, with the electrical and mechanical drawings following a month later,

Station
- Runit
and Engebi - NBS. These stations had the same
design history as Station 54. The basic requirements were the same,and

the data was furnished and checked at the same time as that for Station
54, The only difference was that because of the difference in distance

from zero, the steel reinforcement in Station 57 was designed to develop

the full value of the concrete wall and roof thicknesses specified by
the User, It was felt that these stations would not be seriously damaged

whereas the Station 54 structures were expectedto suffer damage.

Stations
and 62 - Te
4
chi, Bokonaarappu tower southeast of
Runit, and Pliraat - EG&G, These were the 75 foot photo tewers described
in Chapter 5.11 of this Volume, Tolerances established by the User for
the final locations were 0,1 per cent of the distance from zero and + 6

inches between photo towers on the same island,

Stations 61 and 63 - Teiteiripucchi, Bokonaarappu, Piiraai, and Site
HasoutheastofBanks—_teee- The sketches for these structures (battery
units)

were provided H&H on January 24, 1950,

-for each photo tower,

(See Station 60. )

One building was required

The choice of building material

was left to H&N discretion, The final buildings were of wood framing
with an aluminum skin over the wood sheathing, The aluminum was used

because of its resistance to salt spray,

On Teiteiripucchi, Bokonaarappu,

and Piiraai, it was possible to erect the building on soil. However, Site
M was on the coral reef, which was covered with water twice a day. This
necessitated a few changes in the photo tower shaft at that site. The
station was located at the 25 foot elevation inside the tower shaft, the
flooring being wood instead of concrete as used on the ground locations,

The inside clear dimensions were 6 feet by 7 feet by 7 feet, 11 inches

high, Because of the anticipated loading, the studs were 2 inch by 8 inch
on 12 inch centers and the roof joists were 2 inch by 10 inch on 12 inch ©
centers,

Station 64 - Teiteiripucch! and Piiraaj - EG&G. In order to have a
power source other than batteries on the photo islands, these small power
stations were built. These buildings housed a pair of 50 kw diesel generators and the necessary control panels, <A small annex housed the timing
controls for the island, The framing for roof and walls was 2 inch by 8
inch wood members on 16 inch centers,

The exterior wood sheathing was

covered with an aluminum sheeting, The building had two rooms; one, the
power room, was 14 feet by 15 feet by 8 feet high, and the other, the
timing rooh, was 6 feet by 4 feet by 8 feet high, The 4 foot dimension
in the small room was changed to 8 feet on October 4, 1950.
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