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<br />3.0 EQUIPMENT & FACILITIES <br /> <br />3.1 Operations Center <br /> <br />operations and control activities will be consoli- <br />dated in the project building at Lakin Airport. This building <br />will accomodate the weather radar and communications facilities, <br />as well as weather analysis and pr;oj'ect administrative functions. <br />As such, it will be the principal operating location for the <br />Project Director. <br /> <br />3.2 Seeder Aircraft <br /> <br />One twin engine aircraft will serve as the direct in- <br />jection (on-top) seeder aircraft from April 15 to September 15, <br />1986. This aircraft will be equipped with a full complement of <br />avionics and weather avoidance radar for night time IFR flights. <br />It will be located at the Dodge city Airport. <br /> <br />Three other aircraft will be used for updraft (cloud- <br />base) seeding. These aircraft are currently owned and main- <br />tained by the WKGMD #1. <br /> <br />The updraft aircraft and aircrews will be located at <br />Scott City, Lakin, and Ulysses. <br /> <br />All seeder aircraft will be on "restricted" status <br />and will be certified airworthy under appropriate FAA regu- <br />lations. <br /> <br />3.3 Seeding Devices <br /> <br />The contractor will equip the direct injection seeding <br />aircraft with two dry ice dispensers. Each dispenser will be <br />preset to dispense 20mm size dry ice pellets at the rate of one <br />or two lbs. per minute. <br /> <br />The updraft (cloud base) seeding aircraft will be <br />equipped with wing mounted silver iodide generators arid wing <br />racks for end-burning pyrotechnics. <br /> <br />The generators will be the Carley type acetone burners. <br />Each aircraft will have two generators, one on each wing tip. <br />Each unit will dispense a 3 per cent silver iodide solution at <br />a rate of .126 liters per minute. <br /> <br />The end-burning pyrotechnics will be of the "TI'IIST- <br />LOC" variety for ease and speed of changing. The aircraft will <br />carry 12 pyrotechnic devices in the racks on each wing; 24 in <br />all. The racks will be mounted on the trailing edge of each <br />wing. Two kinds of pyrotechnics will be used: (1) a 20gm device <br />that burns in approximately 6 minutes, and (2) a 75gm device <br />that burns in approximately 3 minutes. Nuclei Engineering, Inc. <br />is the manufacturer. <br />