BOOKKEEPING SYSTEM FOR 'O' FLIGHT TEST PROGRAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81B00879R001000060236-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 26, 2006
• Sequence Number: 236
• Publication Date: November 3, 1961
• Content Type: MF

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ofabookkeeping system *doh ccuLd be used
quarter* to get en esprozimate numerical record of our a.
miss and fellure experience is the various components end sub-
compcoents of the OXCART programa during flight test. By uay of
background, it appears to me that there is no magic number such
as 1,000 night hours aceumulated, nor rate of acquisition of
flight bourn such as 1, hours per month per eirplasepuhich would
have any meaning as to the *tete of operational readiness of this
system. I feel that we should hem, however, a reesomably good
current numerleal appraisal of a "'bow goes Woeful, beginning with
the initial flight testing 8D1 extending throughout the development
phase under your Cognizance and later under the operational branches
cognizance.
2. I do not. soma, initially at least, amy highly detalls4
plan for recording of this information. I should like to have you
both reflect wpm this setter end than discuss our subsequent steps
to implemeot this request. This endeavor will have a second bene-
fit uhich is to overcome the horrors of the operation* branch that
Lockheed wiii not have in kmed a flight test mammal and speeifia*.
times with roll-out of the first vehicle. / believe that 'bile
such a set of eomplete documentation would be a, rather morainal
endeavor on the part of Lockheed, we in development activities must
sive some thought to these netters and produce at the outset an
outline of test activities in terms of substantive test areas.
I believe further that both this and perhaps the sucaees/failure
status will be of o growing nature as we hector, more femilier with
the flight test activities and the equipment with which vs are
dealing
3. / should expect the
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of detail as performeace of the V
ecotrol and similar obvious potea
should cover the air frame frusta
as well as the autopilot, inertial
initial thought to payload oonsiderati
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