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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89B00980R000300060103-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 22, 2003
• Sequence Number: 103
• Publication Date: December 3, 1964
• Content Type: CABLE

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FLIGHT NO. 31, ARTICLE 1@.2 FLOW.. P' DEC 1964.
3. DURATION: 1:20 HRS9 TOTAL TIPPE: 40':05 MRS.
4. MAX SPEED REACHED: 0.95 AR. 'MAX. ALTITUDE: 359400 FT.
5. TIME ABOVE 2.0 i'to 0:00 MRS THIS FLT. TOTAL: 2:19 HRS.
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T. 0. WEIGHT: 115, 727 LBS.. C. G. 18.7 PERCENT.
0BJECTIVESo EXTERNAL WISSILC CAPTIVE FLIGHTS G?11.
8. ENGINE STARTS GENERATOR OPERAT IO.N, INNS ALIGNMENT, LIQUID
COOLING PACKAGE OPERATION, AND FIRE CONTROL SYSTEM TURN ON WERE .
SATISFACTORY.
9'. THREE PASSES WERE COHPLETLD USING. THE FOR 25X1
VECTORING. THE 6-57, AUGMENTED WITH DOPPLER AND NOISE AGUPIENTATION,
WAS AT 0.65 MAT 109000 FEET. THE YFO12A WAS AT 0.9 M AT 35,000
FEET.
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10. ON PASS NO. I THE MISSIL1. WAS UN AIRCRAFT POWER. VELOCITY A!
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GUIDANCE SLAVING WERE SATISFACTORY. THE MISSILE TRACKED THE
DOPPLER AGGMENTATION.
119 ON PASS NO. 2 AND NO. 3 NO FIRING SIGNAL OR LAUNCH TONE WERE
GENERATED. THE MISSILE REMAINED ON AIRCRAFT POWER. DURING EACH
PASS THE MISSILE BROKE LUCK-ON buT R.EQCQUIRED THE TARGET UPON
RESLAVING. POSTFLIGHT INVESTIGATION REVEALED THAT A SWITCH ON THE
MISSILE TEST PANEL IN THE FCO COCKPIT WAS LEFT IN THE WRONG POSITION
PREVENTING MISSILE TRANSFER TO INTERNAL POWER.
12. A LOW TEMPERATURE WAS INDICATED FOR THE MISSILE GLYCOL COOLANT
THE HEATER CONTROL WAS SWITCHED FROM AUTOMATIC TO MANUAL. JUST
PRIOR TO LANDING AN INDICATION OF INADEQUATE COOLANT FLOW WAS REPORTED.
THE HEATER AND COOLING UNIT WIRE TURNED OFF. A DEFECTIVE COOLANT
.PUMP MOTOR WAS DISCOVERED DURING POSTFLIGHT.
13. MISSILE TELEMETRY, MISSILE BEACON, AND AIRCRAFT BEACON
PERFORMANCE WERE SATISFACTORY. THE FCO REPORTED THAT THE SIGNAL
STRENGTH FROM THE DOPPLER AUGMENTATION APPEARED LOW.
14. INS TERMAINAL ERROR AFTER 1:44 IN THE NAVIGATION MODE WAS
1.6 NAUTICAL MILES.
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