Flight 98: Released from Red Bank, New Jersey, 0948 EST, October 28, 1948
Not recovered
On Flight 98 a 20-foot, .001" polyethylene balloon was used to test radio reception using a new model of the Olland-cycle modulator and a T-69 radiosonde transmitter. Three receiving stations were used, with elevation and azimuth angles as well as the pressure altitude recorded by RDF (SCR-658) equipment. The trajectory of this flight (Figure 46), reconstructed from the data received at the ground station, indicates that the balloon was more than
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Figure 46
175 miles from the Nantucket station at the time the signal was first received. This reception is much greater than may be expected from most
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