‘YyH-29 } SO 16 January 1957 Oh, yes, on something like the CURTISS, but you'd have e maintenance problen. FELT: What about helicopter transportation? Well, I suppose if you pursue the belisopters ané have them for some other reason, then you probably vind up putting a helicopter platform on your shot barge. We've gone through this helicopter platform on the shot barge severe) times before,but for safety reasons, it's always been killed. I daresay, if you had the helicopters around for some other reason, you'd very shortly wind up with a helicopter barge parked in there someplace. What yon'd probably Like to have if you're going to have 4 special ship, is one with a boom large enough to hoist an LCM, and a platform large enough to hold # couple of copters GYBBINS: I'm convinced in my own mind that the way UCRL would like to operate in there is from an efloet set-up, and hold the cost of instaliations ashore to an absolcte minimum. even to the point of making the people a little uncomfortable. I thirk we shoul begin to thin: about listing some of our assumptions, hoping to discover what the mejor areas are that we ought to investigate more thor- oughly. We've tossed around a lot of assumptions and ideas, and they're all perfectly valid assumptions. They fit someplece into this picture; some of them are pertinent when considering them in one light, but they are not per- a tinent 4n another. ‘ Well, this one ca the airstrip. 1 think that, certainly, the requirenent for an airstrip, other than UCRL is one field we have to examine. Yes, I think that's true. GATTISs Yesterday, I talked with Colonel Hynes at 7.4. and he hed heard the rumor of ElLSOOS FELT: Taongi, but this was in an informal stage end they had not done any serious thinking on the problem I told them that Walt would be here today and ve would appreciate their feelings on the subject. They couldn't come to the conference, but t got a call from him e short time ago and he said that on sampling, it would have to be done with B-57's, which ve had already cone] ~- ho — .