WMOD00151

• Project Name: Rules and Regulations
• Title: Modification of Weather
• Date: 5/23/1973
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Public Hearing

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Now, youTre correct wher. you say that only a

2 fraction or the time that the plar:e is t'P is actual seeding

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being done.

For example, if YOn added up 8.11 oj: our projects

4 allover the world, ano took the total number of flight hours,

5 and compared Lb.at J;.Jith the aCf':ua1 amount or seeding ti.me,

6 th8~tis "tolithin that frr-unevJo:ck of tctal flight b.O'iJ1CS~ it turDS

7 out that only about forty or fifty percent on a very high

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effic~ency seeding program is

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man actua11v seedillg.
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9 simply moving from ODe place to another, or waiting for. some

10 other. event to occur before the applic8,tion takes place; bl1t

11 even at that, if YOn l~7ere obliged to Pt,t smoke 01,,1: for fifty

12 percent or the time of every flight, the am01Jnt of the smoke

13 candle required to do this would be pretty enormous, it ,vculct

14 :reate 1), very, very lal:ge operaticDal problem, logistics

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problem.

It could be done, that's true, but it would be a

16 very diffiCult problem.

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PROFESSOR GRANT:

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if I considered this from

18 the standpoint of intent, and from what HI'. Shawct'oft is

19 pushing here, I donTt think they're saying that 'itJ€ want 'to

20 have this plane so marked so tha tit can a hllays be identi tied.

21 I think what theyfre saying;, and I hope yOt) cor:cact me if

22 II m wrong, is -chat when we do see an airplaI1c.......in other ~~fords,

23 it's 1m" enough that we can see it, that itls not in the

24 Cl011dS end we do see it, we would like to have some way to

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identify that that is a seeding aIrplane.

I don1t think the

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