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