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In Blind shots, MANHUNT and BARRYMORE would cooperate in passing
airoraft from one control system to another,
Control of aircraft pro~
ceeding from Eniwetok to Bilin was to pass from MANHUNT to BARRYMORE
when the aircraft reached a point approximately 90 miles from Bikinls
BARRYMORE then was to assume positive control of aircraft until completion of the shot mission,
Upon return from Bikini, BARRYMORE, at a point
approximately 90 miles from Eniwetok, was to instruct the pilot of each
airoraft to contact MANHUNT for primary control,
In September 1957, Major James A. Ashoraft of the Operations Direc~
torate visited the USS Baxer to examine the air control facility, Hefound the facility to be satisfactory for use by Taak Group 7.4 in aire
craft control operations, there being, or planned to be, available the
following gears (1) TACAN, low frequency homing beacon, and direction
finding facilities; (2) nine GRC-27 radios; and (3) a conrmunicatiofaconsole toprovide fen channel transmitting and receiving at each operating
position,
This last named facility, which had been programmed for the
USS Estes, would represent a decided improvement over ths system used for
REDWING,
Aircraft control in the Bikini area during REDWING had been
hampered because of a lack of UHF air~ground communication range for more
desirable distances, a lack of channel selection and equipment operation
flexibility, and a lack of inter-position commmication within the Combat
Information Center (that is, the Estes Air Operations Center).
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