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Dr. Alvin C. Graves
Scientific Director, JTF SEVEN
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
1/1991
P. 0. Box 1663
Los Alamos, New liexico
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Dear Al,
I sincerely believe that our meetings last week did more to clear
the air than any we have held to date.
I know that I personally gained
a great deal and feel that the meeting of the minds will be of great
benefit to all. However, just for the record, I thought it might be a
good idea to jot down some of the principal items we discussed.
1.
The extra B-36.
The principal question to be answered is, "Do
we all realize the magnitude of the support involved by adding one B-36
aircraft to the program?" ‘We now have three B-36's. One is for project
6.2, "Effects of Blasts, Gusts and Thermal Radiation in AC in Flight",
and two are "Featherweights" for Programs 11 and 21, "Radiochemistry".
One of the Rad-Chem aircraft is to be used for samaling and the otner
is for control of the F-84G's. The letter also serves as a backup to
the sam-le aircraft.
loiring:
The addition of one more 5-36 will do the fol-
a.
add 43 people to the aniwetok population.
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b.
It will require one tank car of gasoline every tine she
c.
It will make parking a real problem.
crew members and the remainder serve as maintenance personnel.
revs up her motors.
None of the above are insurmountable and I am sure we can handle all
these difficulties. We will try to get this aircraft for you if you
consider that the present~Samoling back-up is insufficient or that the
high altitude samples are absolutely necessary for evaluation of the
Rad=Chem data. In short, if you feel we need it, we'll do our best to
get it. I just want to make sure we all know what is involved when we
ask for another B-36. We heard today the B-50's are unavailable and
TG 7.4 may have to take another B-36 for the cloud photo mission,
complicates the picture even more,
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