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Lower forwarded nacelle cowling panels dished and buckled
with some popped rivets and skin tears;
Lower aft turret door panels dished;
Slight distortions in light gauge skin of lower aft fuselage;
Combined blast and gust loads deflected forward and aft of
bomb bay doors into bomb bay between hinge point and buckled
door structure approximately four feet from front of each set;
Some distortion of bottom of Bulkhead No. 5;
Some torn rivets at right horizontal stabilizer tip;
Compression wrinkle pattern middle section of vertical stabilizer at leading edge;
Slight thermal damage in the form of minor paint blistering
on elevators; elevator trim tabs, lower rounded portion of
wing trailing edge between center and inboard engine, and
inboard engine and fuselage;
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Slight thermal damage on sft section of main gear wheel doors;
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Curtain on optics in periscope charred;
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Slight warping of aluminum lacquered drog strut wing fairing
and lacquer blistered and scorched;
Black coating on ADF antenna fairing blistered;
Rear right upper and lower blisters cracked and rubber scorched; ;
Aluminum lacquered 24 ST .016 web of horizontal stabilizer
trailing edge fairing scorched and buckled where exposed; some
popped and loose rivets in spanwise rivet lines on top surface
of horizontal stabilizer leading and trailing edge fairings.
Damages on ELAINE ONE were repaired prior to ROMEO, the second shot.
Under normal maintenance conditions it was estimated that 750 to 800 manhours, would have been needed to complete the repairs.
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The data for ELAINE TWO was usable, but ambiguities existed. The
B-47 was 1,800 feet over according to its scope photography, but later
reduction of Raydist data placed the figure at 2,985 feet.
This was
probably the reason the B-47 sustained no damage while the B-36 sustained fairly severe damages,
The shock wave arrival time, 110.5 seconds
after Time Zero, and the accompanying overpressure, 0.360 psi, agreed
with the values calculated for the actual positioning of the aircraft.
The crew felt neither heat nor extreme shock buffetin the cockpit.
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aircraft received only minor external damage from thermal and blast ef=fects.
Two visible evidences of test effects were found:
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