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The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert

USAF / The Black Vault · 1995 · 882 pages · text by OCR, confidence 99%

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$$ \frac {\Delta L}{L _ {1}} = \frac {B}{1 - B} \left(\frac {T _ {g _ {2}} - T _ {1}}{T _ {g _ {2}}}\right) $$ or, for small temperature differences, we have: (6) $$ \frac {\Delta L}{L} = \frac {B}{1 - B} \left(\frac {\Delta T}{T}\right) $$ With increasing temperatures, there will be an unbalance in the direction of greater altitude. While climbing to a greater altitude the balloon will valve gas and come to equilibrium at a new level. Thus the effect of gain of superheat with a full nonextensible balloon will be a slight increase of altitude. Investigating the case where an initial amount of superheat is lost: $$ \Delta L = V _ {2} \left(d _ {a _ {2}} - d _ {g _ {2}}\right) - V _ {1} \left(d _ {a _ {1}} - d _ {g _ {1}}\right) $$ and since the balloon volume will decrease with cooling of the lifting gas: $$ V _ {2} = V _ {1} \frac {T g _ {2}}{T g _ {1}} $$ (assuming constant p) Therefore, again making use of the assumptions that: $$ P _ {a _ {1}} = P _ {a _ {2}} = P _ {g _ {1}} = P _ {g _ {2}} = P $$ and: $$ T g _ {2} = T a _ {1} = T a _ {2} = T _ {2} $$ Combining equation (2) and equation (7), we have: $$ \begin{array}{l} \Delta L = V _ {1} \left[ \frac {T _ {2}}{T _ {g _ {1}}} \left(\frac {p}{R _ {a} T _ {2}} - \frac {p}{R _ {g} T _ {2}}\right) - \left(\frac {p}{R _ {a} T _ {2}} - \frac {p}{R _ {g} T _ {g}}\right) \right] \\ = V _ {1} \left(\frac {p}{R _ {a} T _ {g _ {1}}} - \frac {p}{R _ {g} T _ {g _ {1}}} - \frac {p}{R _ {a} T _ {2}} + \frac {p}{R _ {g} T _ {g _ {1}}}\right) \\ \end{array} $$

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