Monday, September 24.1973
Skvlab Gets KU Data on Last Try
By BILL WILLETS Kansan Staff Reporter
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Persistence has paid off for a University of Kansas group conducting an experiment with a computer.
Harold Yarger, a research assistant for the Kansas Geological Survey, said Friday that data had been taken by the satellite mission to help track earthquakes and space mission will end tomorrow, this was
Aerobatics Entertain Aviation Dav Crowd
By JEFFREY HILL
Kansan Staff Reporter
Five aerobatic pilots kept about 1,500 heads turned skyward yesterday at Lawrence Municipal Airport as the stunt flyers performed stalls, rolls, loops and spins to highlight Lawrence Aviation Day activities.
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS majoring in philosophy will meet at 7:30 tonight in the Council Room of the Kansas Union. Representatives to the College Philosophy Club and the Philosophy Club will be elected and an Undergraduate Philosophy Club will be organized.
NORMAN DAVIES will lecture on "The Polish-Soviet War of 1919-1920" at 7:30 tonight in the International Room of the Kansas Union. Davies, a lecturer at the University of London and a senior associate member of St. Anthony's College, Oxford, is the author of two books and has written articles on Polish history in World War I.
WILLIAM SCHNEIDER, an expert on undersea exploration and drilling, will speak at 8 tonight in the Apollo Room of the Space Technology Center.
Spectators endured muddy fields at the airport to watch the events, which ended Lawrence Aviation Week. The Chamber of Commerce sponsored the air show to call attention to a need to improve the Lawrence Municipal Airport.
Chuck Carothers, a dentist from Lincoln, Ne., highlighted the aerobic sequences in the book *The Best Airplanes*. Dusty Hodes as "one of the world's finest and fastest aerobic airplanes." Pitts Specials were used by the American team to win the world championship in aerobic aircraft.
Two slow, clumsy Stearman biplanes looked graceful under the control of two pilots from Leawood, Si Royce and Art Llandquist.
GARNET JONES, a pilot for Braniff International Airlines, and Harold Neumann, the year-old pilot who was trained on the top aerobatics in 1838, also flew aerobic sequences.
Parachute jumpers, gliders, radio-controlled model airplanes and a hot air balloon ascension kept the sky full and the crowd busy between aerobatic sequences.
Nancy Hambleton, mayor of Lawrence,
and Sen. Bent Booth, R-Lawrence, gave
speech at the annual law conference.
Improvements at Lawrence Municipal Airport hinge on a proposed bond issue. If approved, the bonds would raise $600,000 from Lawrence tax-payers and permit federal aid of nearly $2 million to improve runways and buildings at the airport.
"The basic purpose of the Chamber of Commerce aviation drive is to familiarize the people of Lawrence with the advantages of aviation to the economy." Jan Roskam, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce's aviation committee, said.
the last chance KU had to obtain the data.
"There are only certain times it (the satellite) passes over Kansas during daylight hours, and you can't take that possibility. All but this last one were canceled either because of bad weather, problems with Skylab or because the experiment wasn't of a high enough quality."
"We ARE ATTEMPTING to see if we can develop a correlation between the data from the satellite and the data we already have about the water quality."
he said the object of the experiment was to determine just what the satellite could see. He had to find out where the sun came from.
Yarger said sensors on the satellite had been activated when it had passed over Kansas. At the same time, KU crews were taking samples of water at the Elk City, Toronto, Fall River and Redmond reservoirs.
The experiments, Yarger said, involved taking water quality samples at four locations.
"If we could develop a simple routine procedure to extract water quality samples (by means of sensors on the satellite), in the future, we would be able to go out into remote areas." Yarger said.
Yarger said RU also had conducted experiments in conjunction with an unmanned satellite known as the earth resources technology satellite (ERTS).
THAT SATELLITE, said Yarger, was launched about a year ago.
"We're in the middle of evaluating it now," he said. He said he had developed good correlation in this project concerning suspended material in water.
Yarger said the data would be evaluated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and sent to KU within a month.
Yarger said KU also would be involved in experiments with Skylab 3, scheduled to be launched by NASA.
NASA is supporting about two-thirds of the cost of the experiments. Yarer said.
Spencer said research was conducted through post mission evaluations and from real time data. Post mission data are received from NASA on magnetic tape, he said. Real time data are gathered by crews that receivers to monitor the space flight.
LIKE THE WATER QUALITY experiments, Spencer's feasibility studies have been interrupted several times by weather, he said.
"Our primary function is to make a system performance evaluation of the sensor," he said, "finding how accurate the data are."
"We have been given the sum of $25,000 to
Spencer said one phase of the real time data experiments involved taking antenna patterns from space. To his knowledge, he said, no one else has ever done this.
At least one other project is being conducted by a KU research team. That project, according to Bill Spencer, project manager at the KU research evaluation, involves testing of a sensor on board the satellite known as the $^{193}$, a microwave composite sensor unit. The data may be helpful in forecasting weather by monitoring the atmosphere above the oceans.
The data collected by Skylab will be received in about a month. Spencer said.
The experiments have had quite good results, he said. His research team has conducted four operations altogether, the two taking place on Sept. 7-8 and Sept. 12-13.
do the experiments," he said. "Whatever happens, happens."
THE KANASS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, Yarger said, became involved in the experiments when NASA sent out requests for experiment proposals.
He said the only cost to KU was in terms of man hours and laboratory equipment.
He said Bill Barr of the Center for Research Engineers had done much to enhance his research skills.
University Daily Kansan
Proposed City Bicycle Routes Will Be Considered Tonight
The Mt. Oread Bicycle Club will present a proposal for nine city bicycle routes at a public hearing of the Lawrence Traffic and Safety Commission at 7 tonight in the commission room on the fourth floor of the First National Bank.
traffic also would have lanes marked by a stripe painted five feet from the curb on each side.
The proposed routes would connect the University of Kansas campus, Haskell Indian Union Junction, several apartment buildings, city parks, and several main shopping areas in Lawrence.
Each route would be marked by a number and a street sign. Routes with heavier
The lanes were designed to follow routes with minimal grade, wide streets and light traffic.
The hearing is the result of a Lawrence City Commission mandate to study bake hooks.
The city commission indicated it would consider painting lines to mark the routes, permitting use of sidewalks by bicycles and removing parking where necessary.
Graduate Student Elections
Offices: Area Group Representatives from each of the following academic divisions.
Responding to the need for Graduate Student involvement within the University the Graduate Student Council, with the assistance of the Student Senate Elections Committee, will hold elections on Oct. 17 and 18 (from 8 to 5:00) in order to provide representation for the Graduate Students of the University of Kansas.
AREA 1—Humanities and Fine Arts
AREA 2—Behavioral and Social Sciences Education, Business and Journalism
AREA 3—Biological Sciences
AREA 4—Physical Sciences and Engineering
For further information contact the Graduate Student Council at Room 3BE in One Student Activities Center or call 4-3011.