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. 3.0. EQUIPMENT & FACILITIES 3.1 Operations Center Operations and control activities will be consoli- dated in the project building at Lakin Airport. This building will accomodate the weather radar and communications facilities, as well as weather analysis and project administrative functions, As such, it will be the principal operating location for the project Director. 3,2 Seeder Aircraft One twin engine aircraft will serve as the direct (on- top) seeder aircraft from June 1 to September 15,1985. This aircraft will be equipped with a full'complement of avionics and. weather avoidance radar for night time IFR flights. The direct injection aircraft will be located at Dodge City. Three other aircraft will be used for updraft (cloud- base) seeding. These aircraft are currently owned and main- tained by the WKGMD#l, The updraft aircraft and aircrews will be located at Scott city, Lakin-Tribune, and Johnson or Ulysses. All seeder aircraft will be on "restricted" status and will be.certified airworthy under appropriate FAA regu- lations, 3.3 Seeding Devices The direct seeding aircraft will be equipped by the contractor. with two dry ice dispensers. Each dispenser will be preset to dispense 20mm pellets of dry ice at the rate of one or two Ibs, per minute, . The updraft (cloud base) seeding aircraft will be equipped with wing mounted silver iodide generators. These will be the Carley type acetone burners. Each aircraft will have two units, one on each wing tip. Each unit will dispense a 3 per cent silver iodide solution at a rate of ,126 liters per minute. 3.4 Seeding Material Dry ice (C02) will be used as the direct seeding mat- erial by the on-top aircraft, The dry ice will be dispensed in pellet form of apgroximately 30mm in size from a flight level equivalent to -20 c, Dispersal will be continuous while over or in the cells to be treated, Fig, 2