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The Roswell Report: Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert was published in 1995 by Headquarters United States Air Force. It was written in response to Representative Steven H. Schiff's request and a General Accounting Office audit, and it contains Col. Richard L. Weaver's report and 1st Lt. James McAndrew's synopsis, along with attachments, appendices and photographs. The report says researchers found no evidence of an extraterrestrial craft or crew. It concludes that the 1947 debris came from a Project MOGUL balloon train.
“rotating”19 pages
- p. 218 …remember these which would make the thing rotate in flight.
But this, in the B models…
- p. 418 …Specltically, he le resnonaible tor tuperv1t1on of the Rotating ~gine
Branch and the lon-lotating Encine…
- p. 428 (Type E preferred) J a rotating commutator ot two segments,
an insulator and a conductor; a…
- p. 519 Corps ML-310/ radiosonde aneroid unit, a metal helix on a
rotating cylinder of insulating material…
- p. 521 …However, this
error was minimized by the smoothness of the rotating cylinder
and the continuous motion…
- p. 523 …The performar.ce specifications are as follows:
(a) Rotation: one revolution every 12 hours
(b) Duration…
- p. 528 …is
recorded by the pen on a rotating smoked drum {B) • In order to
prevent the…
- p. 558 …and as evidenced by the barogram
in Figure 20 (12-hour rotation). the balloon maintained its…
- p. 560 …From the barogram
(Figure 22) (12-hour rotation) it appears that the orifice did not permit…
- p. 671 …and with four turns
on a helix rotating once a minute, the pressure read-
ability of…
- p. 908 …This contact is used as a reference
point for measuring the speed of rotation of the…
- p. 910 (b)
gears or poor alignment of the rotating cy-
linder. The motor gears may be cleaned…
- p. 911 pending upon the speed or rotation of the mo-
dulator motor. The pressure signal appears
at…
- p. 915 …These values may be detected by
carefully observing the rate of rotation of the
motor, which…
- p. 916 change in motor speed of five percent or more
from the preceding rotation, the pressure value…
- p. 917 …When rotating e. t about l rpm duration of
signals not over 3 to 4 seconds…
- p. 920 …The recording dr~ rotates once in twelve hours.
Therefore, it a :flight lasts over twelve hours…
- p. 922 …In smoking the drum a long
rod is used as a rotating axis. The drum is…
- p. 923 …The rotation of the drum
is once in 12 hours and, therefore, the time-distance
relation…
Oil these tlightl fixed ballaat leak• ot troa 260 to 600 grams per hour
were used. Theae leaks were prOTided through romd orifices rather then
through needle valve• which had be• in uee preTioudy. 1'hi1 improvement
reduced the possibilit,y or clogging.
On Plight 43 the tiret model ot an Olland-o7cle pressure modulator was
tlown with a moditied T-69 ( 400 me) radioeonde transmitter. The resul ta
obtained on thie tlight were not satistactory, but later test proved
SUCCesatul.
The train seen in Figure 16 is typical ot those flown during this period.
Note the presence of the deTioe to rip the balloon when desoending into
air lanes and thus speed up ita tall.
G.M. 201
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Flight 16: Train, typical o1' those flown in April, 1948
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