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According to data obtained from the KAA Navigation and Bombing
System, the horizontal range of the B-47B at shot time was 28,300
feet, or 3520 feet short and 4.7 seconds late of the assigned position
of 31,820 feet.
The heading was 120 degrees trus, in a tail—on aspect
to Ground Zero.
Raydist figures were not available at this writing.
Incident thermal energy wa
megatons.
Using these figureB
and the weapon's yield was 1.6
as a basis of comparison, the thermal
rises in 0.020 aluminum skin were twenty-five percent higher than pre-
dicted.
The temperature rises ranged from a 21° F peak value in 0.188
to 205° F in 0.020 aluminum skin. At shock time, the horizontal range
of the aircraft was 81,000 feet and the measured peak overpressure was
0.25 pai plus ten percent at all stations.
aircraft in 74.5 seconds.
The shock wave reached the
.
All of the instrumentation equipment was operative prior to takeoff.
Records indicated that ninety-six percent of the ninety-one in-
strumentation functions were operative in flight.
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