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[[underline]] 29th Contind. [[/underline]]

   Met Col. Harman - cbf of Flight Section. He is very bitter about disapproval of his requests for SCS-51 - GCA, etc. Says internal troubles are great.

  Flew P-59 - Very interesting. Took off with 16,500 RMP - Cruised at 16,000. Stalls at 85 - High cruising about 355 indicated. Stalls very nicely - Does not fall off. - Plenty of stall warning. Approached at 130 over fence at 110 - too fast - Floated half way across field -

Jets introduce many new problems - Must make straight in approaches - No holding - No circling field for landing, etc - Visibility problem great with relative speeds of 900 MPH and up, cannot depend on [[strikethrough]] y [[/strikethrough]] vision to prevent collision - Must go to continuous instrument methods.

30th & 31st May.

Discussion with Fink and Ratliff re Sec I and Sec II of Report.