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16 January 1957
Well, it would be very uneconomical to have copters up there unless you did
have something like @ earrier, just because af your mintenance problez.
ReC:
Maybe you could sneak a carrier evey from the operation down below, just
to make thet one pass end get the data. Do it once, end from there for the
rest of the operation you mightbe eble to guess vhat your situztion vas
after each shot.
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Bow long after, would you say, you'd want to make that first survey?
Well, 3 think you'd vant to atart in about a couple of hours.
I think, depending on what you've got up there, you do different things.
If you take the airstrip es being mit in there, somcone's going to want to
gO end see whet the sirstrip looks like.
After all, sampling is going to
take place an hour or so later, after a shot, and it vould be nice to know
what the airstrip looks like. You can do that with a POV, they did it every
time on REDWING. They also ean take radietion reafings et the sane tine.
They vould probebly be adequate for atreraft safety.
GIBBINS: I think they'd aleo be adequate from the standpoint of keeping a guy out of
trouble in e boat.
PELT:
That might well be.
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I think the general ensver to the question is, yes, we
do vant some sort of @ survey.
need.
It's not elear just how much detail you'd
Ultimately, you're going to have to go in by boet anyway, in order to
put in the next barge.
If you have an airstrip, you'd vant to have sare
estimate of tvo things, physical damege and radiation levels.
If you have
telexeter relay station, you my or my not want to get into thet.
Yt's not as urgent.
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. Ho, £t isn’t. Precumbly, even if you have an alpha station, it's not as
urgent.
Bereagain, if you do not kave belicopters, you're counting on getting
in by Doat.
I suppose you could have a couple of helicopters if you had a
euiterie landing platform someplace.
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