CABLE TO DIRECTOR FROM [DELETED] RE PRIMARY TEST OBJECTIVE BY-PASS DOOR AND SPI

Created: 7/28/1962

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FLIGHT NUMBERLOWN TODAT FOB FIFTY TWO MINUTES FLYING TIME. TAKE-OFF IN AB WITH WATER0 LBS GROSS, CG9 PERCENT MAC. AB CLIMB MADE TOHOUSAND FEET. PRIMARY TEST OBJECTIVEDOOR AND SPIKE TEST. LEFT HAND BY-PASS DOOR AND INLET SPIKE WERE CYCLED FROM ATTOMATIC TO MANUAL OPEN AND BACK TO AUTOMATIC AS AIRCRAFT ACCEL ER AT ED INACH INCREMENTS UPACH NUMBER ATHOUSAND. FOLLOWING THIS SEQUENCE, RIGHT HAND BY-PASS DOOR WAS OPENED NORMALLY, LEFT HAND DOOR IN AUTOMATIC, ACCELERATED TO EXPERIENCED FAMILIAR ROUGHNESS ON LEFT ENGINE. AT THIS POINT LEFT ENGINE DOORS WERE STILL CLOSED. DOORS WERE MANUALLY OPENED AND ROUGHNESS DISAPPEARED. AIRCRAFT CLIMBED TOHOUSAND AND ACCELERATED3 MACH. LEFT ENGINE DOORS SWITCHED BACK TO

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AUTOMATIC, NO ROUGHNESS VAS DETECTED. LETT HAND DOORS SWITCHED

BACK TO MANUALLY OPEN. DESCENDED AND DECELERATED BACK2 MACH

AT WHICH POINT LEFT HAND DOORS SWITCHED TO AUTOMATIC FOR ANOTHER READII

DESCENT THEN CONTINUED DURING WHICH TANK PRESSURES WERE RECORDED

AND NOTED TO BE NORMAL. ENTERED TRAFFIC PATTERN AND LANDED. LANDING

HwAS NORMAL, CHUTE DEPLOYED FERFECTLY, TURNED OFF AT TAXIVAY WITH MODERATE BRAKING. AIRCRAFT IN COMMISSION FOR MONDAY FLIGHT AS OF THIS TIME.

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