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we don't know. Wow, from those pictures, in which we asked for second hand
tining to appeer in the shote as they are taken with 60% overlap along the
run end 30% on the eides, they can tell something about current movements
from the foam patches, but that's all the current information they will
have ecross the reef.
So, it's ® sketchy thing to go on without actually
measuring it, and you won't know anything about the vertical measurement.
te this a stereo lapping?
Yes.
IT heave a hard time visualising a test vithout an airstrip somevhere.
It
seens to me thet you are going to tie up a lot of people for @ long time.
FELT:
Well, we talked yesterday ant I told those present what I understood of
your needs.
We discussed the vhole thing from ea somewket more general
point of view, trying to conezider what needs would arise from the require-
ments placed on other task groupe by 7.1 to support test operations in the
One of the mejor subjects that we discussed was the question of an
airstrip.
We felt that the chances were quite good that there will be very
strong pressure Grising out of 7.4 to put in an eirstrip there.
justification would be én emergercy landing strip.
Their
This we intend to
explore with 7.4 and find out just how stronzly they feel ebout it.
They
have felt cuite strongly about it before end they even went to the extent
of asking to have a barricade put on Engebi, for exenple, and we put out
pots on the Eninman airstrip, and ve put e barricade up over there at Enyn,
ané co forth.
Our hunch is that 7.4 would push pretty hard to put in some
kird of emergency airstrip up there.
Thet was the first thing.
The
second thing we talked about was Holmes & Narver's methods of operation.
While they could successfully get along up there without en airstrip, I
nevertheless felt tbat ‘ you got dom into the H&M working level and askeé
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them how they felt about it, they would develop fairly strong arguments
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