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su plies from Navy resources at Kwajalein and Hawaii.
To avoid trans~
portation delays, certain critical spare parts and spare engines were
positioned at Eniwetok,
The A4D aircraft fulfilled test requirements specified by Project
5.2, concerned principally with weapon effects,
The FJ4 aircraft were
required by Project 5,3 also to record weapon effects data.
The P2v,
under rroject 8.5, was engaged in making airborne infra-red measurements
from nuclear explosions,
These aircraft, participating in a total of
nine shots, comoleted their requirements early and departed from kniwe=
tok for return to the Zone of Interior on 24 June 1958.
The short range
fighter aircraft were transported aboard the USS Boxer.
A fourth element of the Test Aircraft Unit was the AFOAT-1 (Office
of the Assistant for Atomic cnergy, detachment) Element, manned, trained,
and equipped by the Office of the Assistant for Atomic Energy.
This
element utilized certain aircraft of the Test Aircraft Unit and the Test
services Unit in the pursuit of its mission,
Thg, lonosphere kiement, operating under Project 6.10, was manned,
trained, und equipped by air Force Cambridge Research Center.
[he ele~
mant operated a C~97 aircraft equipped with ionospheric sounding equip—
ment in the TnaaK and ORANGE events to investigate ionization and related
e:fects created in tne high atmosphere by nuclear detonations,
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