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space, including a flight tower, weather office, administration office, dark 

 room, navy cage, Recordak room, operations office, analysis room, and 

 a parachute -and-stock room. In addition to this, about 640 square feet of 

 conference room was available whenever required. In the same category 

 was a room in the hangar for aircraft, when a heated area was needed for 

 installation work, repairs, or other reasons. 



On call were two aircraft mechanics, two shop men, two transcribers, 

 and an instrument man. A full-time secretary handled reports, correspon- 

 dence, telephones, etc. 



To facilitate flight operations, two Weather Eureau teletype circuits 

 were installed, as well as a Teletalk system connecting all offices. This 

 could also operate a public -address system in the hangar and the ramp. In 

 addition, connections were made through two leased wires to the Eoston CAA 

 control center and the Army Airways control center at Middletown, Pa. 



At the hangar, a repair station was available. Guards were assigned 

 for the protection of aircraft and equipment, and standard aircraft fire- 

 fighting equipment with trained personnel was on hand for emergencies. 



At first the number of aircraft assigned to the project was disappoint- 

 ingly meager, but eventually this situation was corrected. At one time as 

 many as six planes were available --three from the army and three from 

 the navy. 



Active flight operations ran from the establishment of the project in 

 March j 1947, until August, 1950, when the Operations Group was disbanded 

 at the suggestion of the Research Group. (This move was made in the inter- 

 ests of economy, for most of the objectives of the flight program had by that 

 time been accomplished.) 



A list of all the flights made by Project Cirrus is attached as Appendix 

 II. . This list includes the flights made In rented planes before the establish- 

 ment Of the project. It also includes the flight numbers for the time after a 

 system of numbering was instituted. 



Although a brief statement of the location and purpose of each flight 

 is also given in Appendix "II, this information is not supplied in detail. It is, 

 rather, summed up In connection with the discussions which follow of the 

 Individual studies and operations. Detailed descriptions of the flights are 

 available in flight folders located, at the time of this writing, in the files 

 of the Weather Station in the Laboratory penthouse. 



