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-650) equipment. The trajectory of this flight (Figure 46), reconstructed from the data received at the ground station, indicates that the balloon was more than
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