i January 1958 to 31 January 1958
Subcontract No, 108, Appendixes B, C, and D
this informal monthly progress report is the third of a series submitted
in partial fulfillment of Subcontract No. 108.
The information is regarded
as preliminary and subject to further verification and analysis.
I,
Delivery
Forty-eight ASP motors, 96 Loki motors, 5 moedified leunchers, and
18 new leunchers have been shipped to the Pacific Proving Grounds.
One
modified launcher is still at WSPG.
It.
Blectrenics
Fifteen programmers have been built, and 45 more are in production.
Some modification of the design was necessary after the programmer was flown
in the test vehicles, but other tests yielded good results.
design of the sequence firing equipment is complete.
being made, and no design changes are anticipated.
Preliminary
Prototype units are
Twenty-four launcher
boxes and five master control boxes will be built.
III,
WindTunnel.Tests
The operational characteristics of the diffuser-filter assembly were
ebserved in a wind tunnel test conducted on 30 January at the NACA Ames
Aeronautical Laboratory.
Results were even better than expected, fully
confirming the design calcvlations.
The records are expected to arrive
from Ames by 14 February, and a report on the test will be forwarded when
the data have been analyzed.