This could provide up to 40 hours of pressure-time data if recovered. At present, about 60 percent of the flights have been recovered.
2. The adoption of a time-interval or Olland-cycle radiosonde system for telemetering pressure data.
3. Expansion of the network of ground tracking stations equipped with SCR-658 direction finding sets to increase reception of data telemetered. Figure 18 shows the area to the east of Alamogordo, New Mexico, and the probable boundaries of flight paths following release from the Alamogordo Army Air Base.
Table III shows the prevailing wind data on which these probable boundaries are based. Also shown in Figure 18 are the desirable locations for SCR-658 sets and the overlap of reception ranges which could be expected, using stations at Alamogordo, Roswell, New Mexico; Hobbs, N.Mex.; and Big Springs, Texas.
TABLE III
AVERAGE WIND INTENSITIES IN BEAUFORT SCALE AND WIND DIRECTIONS AT ELEVATIONS TO 10,000 METERS FOR NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER 1944 AND 1945
NOVEMBER
Year
Surface
1,500 M
3,000 M
5,000 M
10,000 M
El Paso
1944
N-3
NE-1
WSW-5
W-7
--
1945
N-3
WSW-3
WSW-5
W-7
--
Roswell
1944
S-1
WNW-3
W-4
--
--
1945
S-3
SW-1
WNW-5
W-7
--
Albuquerque
1944
SE-3
--
W-3
W-6
W-9
1945
N-3
--
WNW-5
W-8
W-9
Amarillo
1944
SSW-4
W-4
WSW-5
W-7
WSW-11
1945
SW-4
SW-4
W-6
WNW-9
--
Big Spring
1944
--
WSW-4
WNW-4
W-7
WSW-9
1945
--
SW-3
W-6
WNW-7
--
Abilene
1944
--
--
--
--
--
1945
--
--
--
--
W-10
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