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Nose Cone Recovery.
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15 October 1957, representatives of the Task
Group 7.4 Operations Directorate attended a Joint Task Farce SEVEN conference concerning procedures and logistics problems involved in the recovery of rocket nose cones during HARDTACK.
In this program, plans were
made to fire sampling and instrumentation rockets in various test events,
their nose cones being mrachuted into ths lagoon or open sea.
Inasmuch
as these cones were declared essential to the collection of valuable data,
expeditious recovery was held to be imperative.
Task Group 7.4 would
take only a minor part in the project, providing to other Joint Task Force
SEVENYagencies SA-16, helicopter, or 1-20 afreraft for spotting and pos-
otulyen Air Force type crash boat for pick-up of the cones.
On 4 December, Colonel Kieffer and Lieutenant Colonel Walter B. alter,
Jr. (Deputy Director of Operations) attended a Task Group 7.1 conference
on sempling rocket and nose cone recovery, held at Salton Sea Test Base.
Recovery tests were observed during the program.
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The main objective of
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this visit was to coordinate and conuprehend more fully that part of the
task that would be the responsibility of Task Group 7.4 during the actual .
recovery program in the proving ground.
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Another conference and recovery demonstration was conducted by Joint
Task Force SEVEN from 20 to 24 January 1958 at Point Mugu Naval Air Sta~ |
tion, California.
program.
Representatives of Task Group 7.4 participated in this
One determination made at this meeting was that Navy P2V aircraft