aan = =. uring the month of April the mission requirements were accelerated On 20 April, the mission schedule was boosted up to three (3) missions per day, two (2) early morning flights and one (1) afternoon flight, with take-off times at 0430 and 0500 for the morning flights and 1630 for the evening flight. In May, the Weather Reconnaissance Element flew seventy~eight missions of which seventy-three were weather reconnaissance missions, four (4) were cloud sampler migsions and one (1) was a three (3) hour radsafe mission combined with a weather reconnaissance. Only one (1) late take-off occurred during May and six (6) aborts were experienced, of the aborts were beyond mission credit point. Two Two flights aborted short of missions credit but were not required to be made up, _ - For the month of May, mission requirements for D minus 2 and D minus 1 days were increased to three (3) for each day. Three missions were flown on eighteen days in May, two (2) missions on eleven (11) days and ons (1) mission on two (2) days. The element maintained the capability for three (3) missions per day throughout the month but a lull in shooting activity during the middle of the month resulted in several days when only two (2) missions per day were required, During the month of June, seventy-nine missions were flown, seventy- one being weather missions, four (4) cloud sampler missions, three (3) cyclone reconnaissance missions and one (1) ferry flight. There was only one (1) late take-off during this period and of nine (9) aborts five (5) occurred prior to mission credit point. Onlyfour (4) of these five (5) required a make up flight to complete the mission, One ferry mission was flown as a result of an aircraft aborting the track and landing at Wake Island. The aircraft was ferried to Hickam for repairs and later flew 73 LA qa weather mission on the return flight to Eniwetok,. ~S — from the one (1) per day planned to two (2) per day. AFWL/HO