CABLE TO DIRECTOR FROM [DELETED] RE FIN LOAD INVESTIGATIONS WERE MADE BY SHUTTI

Created: 8/16/1962

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LIGHT TEST NUMBERLOWN WEDNESDAY AFTERNOONUGUST, PILOT KR PARKS. TAKE-OFF IN A3 WITH WATER0 LBS GROSS, CG2 PERCENT MAC. PILOTEAS IN CLIMB0 FEET, THEN HELDEET. AT THAT ALTITUDE PILOT ACCELERATED TO FIN LOAD INVESTIGATIONS WERE MADE BY SHUTTING DOWN RIGHT AB AND THROTTLING RIGHT ENGINE TO IDLE, THIS TEST WAS REPEATED ATEST RESULTS WERE NOT CONSIDERED SATISFACTORY DUE TRIMARJXY TO TURBULENCE. TESTS if ILLESCHEDULED AT LATER DATE. INVESTIGATED THEL TRANSFER AT INCREASED HATES DIS ING SUPERSONIC FLIGHT. REMAINING ITEMS ON TEST CARD CANCELLED DUE TO TURBULENCE ttlu CLOUD COVER, MANUAL LANDING GEAR EXTENSION WAS ACCOMPLISHED SATISFACTORILY ON DOWN WIND LEG AS PLANNED.

DRAG CHITTZ DEPLOYMENT

NORMAL* FLIGHTCHEDULED FOR EARLY TOMORROW MORNINGUGUST.

ADDITIONAL HIGH SPEED SPIKE AND BY-PASS DOOR CONTROL INVESTIGATIONS

ffiE PLANNED PROVIDED ATMOSPHERICS ARE FAVORABLE. ECOND FLIGHT

XCLUDED FKOH AUTOMATIC

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