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Show Dr. L Douglas Smoot to assist in BYU designated research study gerfield, Texas, directing an experimental ex-perimental test program involving involv-ing several missile firings. The Ordnance Aerophysics Laboratory is a facility which permits the simulated flight of a missile system. During this simulated flight, the radar attenuation at-tenuation levels caused by ionized exhaust jets are measured. mea-sured. A large tunnel is used in which missile altitude and velocity can be reproduced. Dr. L. Douglas Smoot, former for-mer resident of this city and ; Springville High School gradu-ate, gradu-ate, is one of a team of Brig-'' Brig-'' ham Young University engi-i engi-i neers who will conduct the re-;.' re-;.' search to study radar inter-;' inter-;' ference characteristics of rock-: rock-: et exhaust jets. The research ! was granted BYU in the amount of $32,000 as a subcontract sub-contract from the Lockheed Propulsion Company, Redlands, j California, j, Dr. Smoot, chemical director, Ij Dr. John M. Simonsen, mechan-jf mechan-jf ical engineer, and Dr. Paul O. ;j Berett, electrical engineer, jj will conduct the research which ji is to be completed in one year. I They will be assisted by fifth- year and graduate engineering -students at the BYU. As a part of the study, Dr. Simonsen and Dr. Smoot spent a week at the Ordnance Aerophysics Aero-physics Laboratory at Dain- |