CABLE TO DIRECTOR FROM [DELETED] RE FIRST FLIGHT COMPLETED SATISFACTORILY TOTAL

Created: 5/4/1962

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FIRST FLIGHT TODAY COMPLETED SATISFACTORILY TOTAL TIME IN THE AIROUR ANDINUTES. SECOND FLIGHT WAS CANCELLED DUE TO PILOT ILLNESS. AIRCRAFT WAS READY TO GO FOR SECOND FLIGHT.

2a TAKE OFF MADE WITH WATER INJECTION0 LBS, BROKE GROUNDND0 FEET FOLLOWED DY RAPID CLIMBCHEDULED ALTITUDE0 FEET AND SCHEDULED MAXIMUMNOTS INDICATED. ACTUAL SPEED REACHED WAS0 FEET. THE AIRCRAFT WAS CHECKED THROUGHOUT THE TRANSONIC RANGE AND PERFORMED BEAUT IFULLY. IN LOW SUBSONIC TJ WAS EXCELLENT. GROSS EVALUATION OF SINCLE ENGINE PERFORMANCE WAS MADE AT ALTITUDES00 FEET. SINGLE ENGINE RATES OF CLIMB MEASURED UPPU. TIC AIRCRAFT GAVE INDICATIONS OF FUEL VENTING PROBLEMS BIT TT Is FELT THAT THIS IS DUE TO INSTRUMENTATION ERROR AND NOT THE THE CENTER OF GRAVITY WAS ONE PERCENT

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FURTHER AFT TODAY THAN PREVIOUS BUT NO PROH.EW5 WERE INDICATED.

3. ON THE OFFICIAL FIRST FLIGHT MONDAY,PRIL THE AIRCRAFT TOOK OFFNOTS0 FEETROSS WEIGHT0 LBS. AN INITIAL RATE OF CLIMB0 FPM GEAR DOWN WAS NOT ED o THE AIRCRAFT CLIMBED3 FEET PLUS THEN PROCEEDEDRELIMINARY STABILITY AND CONTROL CHECK0 THE STABILITY AUGMENTATION SYSTEM WAS TURNED OFF AND YAW-ROLL (LATER XAL DIRECTIONAL COUPLING) WAS CHECKED0

NO PARACHUTE WAS USED. 4a THE PILOT NR LOUIS SCHALK REPORTS THAT THE AIRCRAFT FEELS GOOD IN ALL REGIMES, HAS GOOD RESPONSE TC CONTROLS AND IS EXTREMELY STABLE WITH OR WITHOUT STABILITY AUGMENT ORS IN THE SPEED REGIMES TESTED 0

5* THERE ARE THREE FLIGHTS SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAYA70 THE FIRST0

6o THE FLIGHT OPERATIONS WAS VERY SMOOTH AND THINSS ARE BEGINNING TO LOOK VERY ROUTINE,,

THE AIRCRAFT WAS SO DOCILE DOWN TO VERY LOW SPEEDS THAT THIS WAS NOT PURSUED FURTHER 0 PEEDNOTS WAS INDICATED ON CLIMB OUT BUT DUE TO SOKE SENT RAISING THE AIRCRAFT WAS SLOWEDNOTS AND HELD THERE AS AOW FLY BY WAS MADE DOWN THE OLD RUNWAY AT AN ALTITUDE OF0 FEET FOR EENEFXT OF THE VISITORS, PRIOR TO LANDING^ TOUCHDOWN WAS MADENOTS AT0 FT MARKER AND DECELLERATION WAS ACCOMPLISHED BY COASTING OUT

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