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3 In June, 1948, Mr. Stine became chairman and Lt. Comm. 

 E. B„ Faust, executive officer. 



4. In the fall of 1948 Major Rudloph C. Koerner, Jr. became 

 chairman, Rex and Stine left the committee, and Capt. J. A. 

 Plummer, USAF, was added. 



5. In February, 1949, Lt. Comm. Paul J. Siegel became ex- 

 ecutive officer and Lt. Comm. Faust, operations officer. 



6. In April, 1949, Faust was succeeded by Capt. Carl F. Wood 

 as operations officer, Faust becoming data control officer. 

 Plummer left the committee . Membership from then on: 

 Koerner, Siegel, Wood, Faust, Maynard. 



The Initial personnel of the operations group consisted of six repre- 

 sentatives of the Signal Corps, six of the Air Force, and six of the Navy. 

 Although the number of General Electric people working on the project re- 

 mained fairly constant at a figure of six or seven, the government repre- 

 sentatives varied widely in number. As a consequence, the total personnel 

 of the project varied also, running as high as 40 or 41 persons at various 

 times when activities were at their peak. These included crewmen for the 

 planes, weather technicians, and civilian employees for such services as 

 photography. A total of 33 persons went on the Puerto Rico operation, and 

 37 went on the second trip to New Mexico. 



An alphabetical list of the members of Project Cirrus at one time or 

 another is attached as Appendix I, 



FLIGHT PROGRAM 



At the outset, and until June 1, 1947, Project Cirrus test flights were 

 made by a plane from the Weather Squadron assigned to the Signal Corp. 

 This plane visited Schenectady six times, and a total of five seeding flights 

 were made. Olmsted Field at Middletown, Pennsylvania, was the base of 

 operations. 



It was soon discovered, however, that many delays in carrying out 

 flights could be traced to this geographic separation of the Operations 

 and Research groups. Accordingly, in the summer of 1947, all flight 

 operations were transferred to Schenectady. Headquarters for the Opera- 

 tions Group was established at the General Electric hangar at the Schen- 

 ectady County Airport. 



The facilities steadily expanded until, at the end of 1948, they con- 

 sisted of a total of 18 30 square feet of office, operations, and storage 



