Sat in a mtg. with WZL, WW, Bino, & A. Knoll with John McClow of Aerospace to discuss Bino’s curves showing the required radar slew rates for Vehicle B. The radar specs will not have to be modified.

Rec’d a copy of Paul Miller’s summary of the mtg. at AFCOA on 30 April – 01 May.

Wrote memo for WW via WZL on the contextual Map. Paper K1 last week dealt with this subject, and the general scheme looks like it is appropriate for the PA Project — due to its size.

Handed in an April Progress Report that said:
1) Ran KK’s program 22 times to check Dr. Nanni’s trajectory program.
2) I issued 22L-7197 on 9 April
3) I generated 9 longhand pages of comments on the Aerospace draft document on the STV Test Program.

Wrote letters to Paul Miller at AFCOA requesting a return of the BTL documents I had sent down for my use while there on the SADIC problem on 30 April – 1 May trip.

WZL wants me around tomorrow to participate in a discussion with an Aerospace gent re: trajectories.

Discussion with Lou Kraft re: the documentation of the scientific aspects of the STV Program. He was told by Dr. Well to see if Aerospace wanted assistance in this matter, and he found that they don’t, but have a target date of 30 July. Lou get the impression that they are desirous of obtaining all credit for carrying out this program, regardless of the origin of the basic inputs.

Had a long discussion with Dr. Mottley on the make-up, activity objectives of the JCS. He is participating in an IOA study to look into the C2 problem at the DOD or National level.

Participated in the organization mtg. of the Transportation Section of ORSA. Leslie Edie was elected Chairman Protem. The proposed changes to the By-laws will be circulated and the Organizing Committee was instructed to propose at least two candidates for each office.

The mtgs today were generally good, particularly Gen. Schreiver of AFSC. Found that Zimmerman, Chief AFCOA, is resigning to head the OA activity of Douglas at Santa Monica; this from Walt Deemer.

Ran one deck thru after changing CoA from 400 to 1/8; the range changed from 353 to 359. Left the deck with cards for another run with β = 1000. I’ll get it on my return next Monday. Left about 2:30 PM.

Concluded an acceptable draft, for Miller to work on, about 4:30 PM.

Dan Leivich wanted to know if I would return to Alaska at ALCOM. It was hard to say no!

Checked in at AFCOA at 11:10 AM after a 7:30 AM start. I was too tired to start at 6.

The document we were asked to comment on was a statement of the radar range equations for various cases, including self & mutual screening for jamming. It isn’t quite clear just how we are to treat this document.

Stayed at Holiday Inn at Shirley Hiway & s. Glebe Road.

Put the finished Deck into the 7090, but it stopped taking data after card 72; this was the 1st card of the NTI set. Left it for a rerun after Donna Sample was unable to find anything wrong.

Called Gen. McCormack’s office re: HJM, but didn’t get a response later for an appointment.

Rec’d approval to attend the ORSA mtg in DC May 9-11. Put thru trip requests for this and the one next week to DCA.

Started to make up a deck of cards so that I can get an entire trajectory from the program I’m using.

Talked with Dan D. re: HJM at FAA BRD. He agreed, said he would talk to Dr. Overhage, L2 Director, and I will talk to HJM. I did this at 1:45 PM, and he agreed, as he wants to leave the area. Reported this to Dan who said the following: Mr. Halaby had spoken at length with his scientific advisory committee on this need for a BRD head. Halaby wants an individual from industry who is an R&D leader. He certainly won’t get this at the current Federal salaries. Halaby regards this job as the key to the future.

Call from a Col. Duncan on Hanscomb re: going to Washington next week to review a problem that has to do with the air defense of Europe. It turned out that Larry Starkey requested me as a member of a 3-day evaluation committee. I’ll drive down Sunday afternoon.

Decks I, II, & III produced Runs 15, 16, & 17 but Deck IV was short card 2, so it produced no data. Reran this one at 1200.

Discussed Saturday’s idea (4.21) with VAN, who thot that Dan Dustin might be able to help.

Put card 22 (Item 29-42) the nozzle area equal to zero so that the thrust will be zero at time 31.9999 secs. Previous changes have made it zero during the application of the 4th stage thrust. These will be Runs 19 thru 22.

It occurred to me while laying fiber pipe to take water from our SW down spout that Hugh Miser might take on the job of FAA R&D Bureau Chief. I thot of writing to the FAA Administrator & to the President’s Science Adviser Dr. Weisner, but of course, I have no rank. It then occurred to me to seek the assistance of Alex Nedzel, and thru him, Bob Weisner. I’ll work on this on Monday AM.

The 4 runs showed a slowdown to 506 Ft/sec at 38 K! This is too slow.

Reran at 20˚ & 25˚ with δ+ = 1.0 sec rather than 0.1 sec and 250 sec total time.

Put a data deck in the 5 PM run with 20˚, 01. sec, β = 400 and δ = 20˚, 0.1 sec, β = 400 and thrust to 5500 from 700; V at 300 K, 36,281; high.

Picked up the new cards and made up 4 data decks hoping to see what the RE angles will be for 5˚, 10˚, 15˚ and 20˚ of thrust direction — δ in Kressa’s program. Left the program & 4 data decks at the L-208 Express pickup point for 10:45 AM pickup. They were run but I should not have put a data card ahead of each deck. I left them for a 5 PM rerun.

Wrote note to Steve Dodd in Div 2 office to authorize payroll deductions of $458.34 over the next five months. This as a result of Liberty Mutual payments in February and March. I hope this finishes this transaction. My jaw is still tight on the left side, making those teeth intersect first.

Took Kent Kressa’s program and changed it to show higher RE angles; also higher β and lower thrust. Nick Ciampa took me thru the card room where I left an order for enough new data cards to make the above changes.

WZL gave Bino and I the data on the 4th Stage from Ashmore, who phoned it at 0830 PST.

Worked with Bino most of the day. We obtained Kent Kresa’s program from him after finding an error in it (the angle of application of 4th stage thrust). This was changed to 10˚ and the thrust cut by a factor of 10, producing a much more reasonable trajectory. It still however, provided excess velocities and greater than desired ranges.

Spent the day working on the trajectory of the B vehicle, using the tapes from Kent Kresa’s run. We found that he had not used the 3rd stage or 4th in the run he gave us.

Spent the day generating comments on the Aerospace draft document on testing — worked out 9 pages of longhand and gave it to Shirley about 4:15 PM.

Started to organize material again to straighten out the test planning details.

WZL called Bino & I in to tell us that the angular acceleration and range rates are needed by 01 May. He gave me the draft test program document from Geo Elliott. Bino needs the 4th Stage characteristics in order to put thrust into the Petersen program.

Called Lou Kraff at L2/LA re; the 7 questions of yesterday. He spoke with Walt Wells this morning (PST) to the effect that why do we need them, etc.

Can’t find Kent Kresa or John Jelatis.

Tried to get the ff on stages 1 thru 4 of vehicle B:

1. Spec impulse
2. thrust vs time (in vacuo or sea level)
3. m˚
4. Wt
5. Mass retro
6. Propellant Fraction

He didn’t have it for 4th Stage.

He wants (for the 4th Stage) of the Ranger Retro:

1. Thrust vs time – in vacuo or sea level
2. m˚
3. Nozzle area

Phoned a req for the above to Lou Kraff at L2/LA. He will do what he can and will call back today.

Read a copy of Larry Starkey´s OA paper #8 in which he sets forth the heed for knowing the effect of CC in force requirements studies. I´ll send him a copy of my paper for Simplex on combat reaction time analysis, 22G-0076, 11 August 1961.

Went into see Dr. Thoma; he told me not to force my jaw to the right with my hands, but to do it with the muscles in the jaw. Also the left muscle that moves the jaw forward was taken out as it was attached to the condyle that he removed. He measured the opening of the jaw & found it 31 mm as compared to 25 when I was in before.

Had lunch with Ken Guyer & HJM at the Faculty Club. It was most pleasant to see them again.

Worked on the paper for the Test Program.

Lent Forrester’s “Industrial Dynamics” to R. J. Enticknap D121/5451 via Eleanor Hendry.

Called McGraw-Hill to ask for a copy of the 26 March Aviation Week; it has graphs of the recorder entries from the 707 that crashed recently after T.O. from Idlewild.

Worked on the Flight Test Program, editing it into shape to print as an L-Note.

VAN wants prepared the document that we spoke of on 9 March with WW.

Obtained β for 4th stage from Kent Kresa for Dr. Nanni — he will work out a graph.

This has then to be compared with the radar resolution ability.

Discussed the STV situation with Lou Kraff, who is going to WSMR tomorrow. He had made a diagram showing the various equipment at WSMR. The program now needs a reliable flow diagram based on the data requirements of the test program and the equipment at WSMR with the ones programmed for this program.

Sat in a morning mtg. where the first draft of an Operations Plan for the STV Program was presented to Gen. Ostrander, BSD Deputy Commander. He took up most of 2 hours asking questions that showed the need for some revision in an already good document. I obtained a copy of the document.

Spent 2 hours with Geo Elliott who turned out to be quite cooperative.

Saw E. L. Eaton, who was out on another project.

Changed my reservation so I can return tomorrow rather than Saturday.

Finished what write-up I can generate. A flow chart is needed to tie in the data flow between the collection, storage, and processing points.

Finished the White Paper, and wrote part of the Instrumentation portion; some of the background is in it.

Don’t feel good — from this cold.

Had some discussion with Walter Wells & WLZ re: another trip to LA/Aerospace to assist in writing their test program document. WLZ seemed to think that whatever was written would be satisfactory, but it seems to me that one is professionally responsible for what he writes, whether it is used or not in the document for which it is intended.

Obtained cash adv. of $100 for trip to LA Sunday.

Reported to WZL re: the discussion of last Thursday at Aerospace. We tried to get together with Walter Wells, but he was in a group meeting until after lunch. According to EAE, L2 participation in this program was decided by 8 PM last night by CRW, DD, VAN, etc.

Examined the draft test schedule given me by Ashmore, in some detail. It seems a good job. WLZ suggested it be circulated as a L2 paper since it was not brought in under the regular security control.

Had discussion with WZL & WW in the latter’s office, in which it was decided that I should go to Aerospace for next week, then ensued some discussion as to L2 role in this program. Went home early.

Took Lou Kraft to the airport in LA to catch the non-stop TWA to Boston.

Called the L2 office at BSD to start the process for a semi-permanent badge. Obtained it with Carol’s help in about an hour; it is a TS badge. After trying unsuccessfully to reach Jim Ashmore, I left about 11 AM, packed, turned in the car, and left for SF at 1 PM on United, arriving there at 2:05 PM. Took the Greyhound up to SF, called Lila at PRospect 5-7442 and went on up to Ukiah.

See personal diary.

Checked in at Aerospace about 0815 to find our clearances were not at hand so we waited about an hour until they were activated. After this, under Brownie Eaton’s skilled guidance, we (Lou Kraft & I) met and EAE talked shop with a number of people.

The high point of the day came about 4:30 PM in Ashmore’s office when he was called by a military chap who told him that the STV booster was put into the contract negotiation phase. He then wanted to draw on L2 heavily, particularly in view of the mtg. next week at Hollman AFB (WSMR) to firm on operational plans. He also has two people writing test plan documentation; I should come back out & assist in this.

EAE & John Jelatis left on the 10:35 PM non-stop jet for Boston so EAE could try further to get VAN, DD, etc to back this effort; otherwise L2 will be a sideliner.

Checked out an Avis car.

Left Boston at 1245 for LA, arriving there at 3:10 PM PST. Went over to Skyways Hotel. Didn’t have a reservation but a cancellation made a double & a twin available, so we took it, as Eaton came around from BSD at 5:15 PM. Lou Kraff will show at 6:30 PM on TWA.

Aerospace has done some test planning within the last few days, so a lot may have already been done that we intended to do. This will unfold tomorrow.

Talked to John Strano for 1-1/2 hours on the Hughes activity.

Made up a chart showing the 3 contracts that I’ve been able to fix on. Hughes, Chrysler Conduction, and Bendix.

Sat in a mtg until 4:30 PM reviewing the STV situation. My chart was discussed at great length and Lou Kraff’s list of items for consideration in making an analysis of the STV Program. In connection with the identification of requirements I’ll have to go to California next Wednesday to be at BSD on 15 & 16 March.

WLZ & I met with John Rheinstein for an hour to discuss the Bendix & Chrysler Conduction contracts.

Dr. Pike did not think that Convair w/ Boeing has anything to do with the STV program.

Met with W. Wells, Eaton, Kroff, WZL, John Jelatis to go over the STV situation. JJ has been on this job for some time, and has provided a considerable input already; he kept pointing out that decisions are being made quite often and that if Lincoln is going to have an input we should get started now. WW wanted to take a month to write a LL survey paper on the subject. The meeting closed at 1155 to reconvene at 2 PM Friday.

I’m to assemble contract identification info. WZL provided a list of names & items. I passed the items to John Strano, and set up meetings with him & J. Rheinstein.

Storm from NE

High winds but no snow brought high tides — lots of snow in NY, Washington, & Virginia.

Discussed my 09 program of several years ago with Joe O’Brien. He was not able to suggest exactly why it did not add correctly. He thot it ok to change the format statements on Cards 3, 7 & 8.

Drove today.

Worked on FORTRAN for awhile.

Sat under the IR light for 15 minutes.

Spent some time talking with Nelson Brigham, who has been given a bad recommendation by his supervisors. I think part of this is due to ineptness on the part of the supervisors as well as stubbornness on Nelson’s part. Too many scientists are prima donnas, or think they are, and he is no exception. I may have made a mistake, but I referred him to HJM at OEG & CMM at SRI.