Flight 103: Released from Alamogordo, New Mexico, 1015 MST, February 4, 1949
Recovered at Mountain View, Oklahoma
On Flight 103 a B-17 airplane was used to follow the balloon, homing in
on the signal from the AM-1 transmitter with the radio compass. There were
few clouds over the first section of the balloon's path, and very exact
positioning was obtainable. The compass needle reversed almost immediately,
and no cone of silence was found when the plane passed beneath the balloon.
The fixes indicated on the trajectory (Figure 52) show how exactly the path
of the balloon may be determined when tracked in such a manner.
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Figure 52
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