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Droessler was succeeded in the summer of 1950 

 by Lt. Max A. Eaton. Commander Chandler was 

 succeeded in the summer of 1949 by Commander 

 G. D. Good, DCNO (Air). 



Air Forces . Major P. J. Keating, chief, Weather Equipment 

 Flight Test Facility, Middletown, Pa. Major 

 Keating was succeeded 3/23/49 by Col. N. C. 

 Spender of the Air Weather Office, Washington. 

 Major Keating had no alternate; Col. Spender's 

 alternate was Lt. Col. J. Tucker of the Elec- 

 tronics & Atmospheric Branch at Washington. 



The activities of Dr. Langmuir, Dr. Schaefer, Dr. Vonnegut, and others 

 of the General Electric Company's Research Laboratory staff were limited 

 by the Steering Committee to laboratory work and analysis. The General 

 Electric scientific group came to be known to the personnel of the project 

 as the Research Group. In addition to Langmuir, Schaefer, and Vonnegut, 

 this group included Messrs. Kiah Maynard, R. E„ Falconer, Raymond Neu- 

 bauer, Robert Smitti-Johannsen, Duncan Elanchard, George Blair, Myer 

 Geller, Victor Fraenckel, and Charles Woodman. 



An Operations Group was established by the Steering Committee early 

 in the life of the project to plan, co-ordinate, and control all project air oper- 

 ations, assist in the assembly and analysis of all technical data obtained, 

 provide all necessary meteorological information and service required for 

 the efficient conduct of the project, and take whatever action was necessary 

 to fulfill those requirements. This group would contain all military and 

 civilian personnel necessary to fulfill those functions, and it would be under 

 the direction of an Operations Committee. This committee was set up to 

 "assume full responsibility for, and, therefore, exercise complete freedom 

 of action in the initiation of plans for, and the Control of, all project air oper- 

 ations to be conducted in the vicinity of Schenectady." 



The Operations Committee was set up, like the Steering Committee, to 

 include representatives of the three services, plus Kiah Maynard of the Re- 

 search Laboratory as General Electric consultant. It went through numerous 

 changes of personnel. The initial membership, and subsequent changes, were 

 as follows. 



1. Lt. Comm. Daniel F. Rex, USN, chairman; Capt. C. N. 

 Chamberlain, USAF; Roger Wight, Signal Corps; Mr. 

 Maynard. 



2. Wight was succeeded by Samuel Stine in August, 1947. 



