1/12/01 - Darrell began daily 1:15pm all-hands meetings
on 1/8 All days have been one-shift for plane access so far Lab
work by the PI teams continues beyond one shift as each team determines
is appropriate One shift plane access and extended lab work is
planned by several of the PI teams for both weekend days and the
1/15 holiday
Eight of the 14 instrument teams are on-site Five more arrive
next week Thirteen of the 17 racks are onboard; 10 are locked down Two
of the four remaining racks are inhouse and the other two arrive
next week Teams associated with the two racks left onboard
after AFWEX have had no need to be on site so far and will
be inhouse next week Seven of the fifteen inlets/probes/spectroradiometers/lidars
are in final position The ICATS rack is locked down and electrical
compatibility tests with the airplane are beginning and will be
fully underway 1/16 The light weight GA Tech racks fabricated
at Wallops were determined by DC-8 inspection to be unflightworthy
and the racks used on prior GTE missions were substituted for TRACE
P use
A list of 34 tasks associated with upload has been created and
additional machining/sheet metal personnel are being added to the
work force
Audits have been conducted to identify the number and location of all gas bottles
and blue boxes
The capability for realtime display of CO2 and CH4 has been added
to that for O3, CN, CO, NO and cryo H2O Cloud camera videotaping
requirements have been established
Work is underway to resolve how to transport Blake's snakes and other expendibles
to locations where the C-130 cannot meet the need, egKona, Okinawa and Iwakuni Site
visits will occur wk 1/15 to Iwakuni and 1/22 to Hong Kong and Okinawa
A DFRC funding plan has been agreed to There are no significant
issues associated with the transition to the new DC-8 support contractor
on 1/1