PROCESSOR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04770A002900020033-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2006
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: December 8, 1964
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2006/06/28: CIA-RDP78B04770A0 2900020033-4
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December 8, 1964
PROCESSOR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
is aiming to have several major things accomplished bySTAT
March 1, 1965.
a) The clean room completed, tested and ready for operation
? b) Liquid bearing design parameters established: pressure
profile, flow profile, cushion load, optimum slot
design, cushion height vs film speed, etc.
c) Floating tow rig operating and producing data on film
drag.
d) A tank modular concept established with a spacial mock
up completed to illustrate the features.
e) Compilation of known film data applicable to the
. program.
March 1 is the earliest that t thinks he will have significan 'AT
results. He does not believe t e accomplishment will be definitive
by February 1. Ihas relegated the pressure drop tests of STAT
the smooth-bore stainless pipe and fittings to a lower priority.
The clean room installation is in full swing and is absorbing about
half of 0 s time. The floor steel is in place and the floorin&T
(2 thicknesses of 3/4?Q plywood) installed, and levelled. The
vinyl tile floor covering is nearly complete.
The single slot liquid bearing tests have continued. By
producing a pressure profile along the slot which has high pressure
at the ends and lower pressure in the middle they have noted an
encouraging self-centering tendency. The opposite profile (i.e.
high pressure at the center and low pressure at the ends) produces
an unstable centering situation and the film tends to slide off
the bearing.
The November progress report was on time, manpower on the job has
increased and the whole pace of the program has picked up.
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