SURVIVAL KIT PROBLEMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00285R000400110044-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 18, 2002
• Sequence Number: 44
• Publication Date: March 30, 1962
• Content Type: MFR

Approved For R&ease 2002/10/30 : CIA-RDP75B00285B 00400110044-8
30 Mar 62
SUBJECT: Darviva Lit Problems
Twlve live parachute ~hmve been clad, at the 6511th Test
Group, MAF, ffi Centro, California in testing the ~ para-
chute under develo . The survival k
by
Iwas part of the
OCIU4,13WOUG Nurn IN O&M or We" ups.
Problem enoo tterod with the kit ire as follow:
a. an six occasions, the kit trap p aomsntaril7 on the
left side after the release handle W" palled.
be In ooe instance the release huddle would not can. free
at the M to hit the p+ovnd with the kit still
tached to his bodr.
a. After rslsasin a kit it falls mW an a twenty-five
toot laz ard, but stars attached to the 's harnsss.
IM rats of descent of the jasper in asp n tar twenty
test per second. Under these ccadit:Um ssvrral kits have
been dwjsd by contact with the rroood. This damage mm
s to necessitate mtend" the to the aacae-factamr for splitting or arraackkiin .. of drrp been the kit
Actions taken r a rewlt of the shave problems are as follow:
a. Ch W eo eer of mw called to E. Ceetro
and a sales of snspsos were eoo&acted. As a
result the timing sewencs for kit release in. chaaaad.
This chaaap appears to be r9l3ah1e, via additional sus-
psr1a tests, cad will be in.arpersted is all kits*
be Ca *e ere esasioa Am the kit release tie
wand not con. free, it term attribatad to a but in the
All kits are bad" dm do d for wail Walit7
es~wS.
hue ogre" to r of 'ce all kilts to lawn
nip m
as abate ~icmp rill be tented W f nz live jvm fm.
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Approved For Release 2002/10/30 : CIA-RDP75B00285R000400110044-8