of DCS/Operations, AFSWC, stated that B-36 sampler personnel, flying above 45,000 feet, would require the T-1, but that F-84 personnel, scheduled to stay below 45,000 feet, would not need them, altitude for the B-36 was expected to be about 53,000 feet. Maximum Colonel Houghton and Major James M. Hall, Jr., Flight Safety Officer, were tentatively scheduled to study maintenance of the T-1 at the Aero~ Medical Laboratory at Gunter Air Force Base, Alabama, where the suits were to be procured and fitted. The SAC Test Detachment was notified that all personnel flying above 45,000 feet would have to be equipped with T-l suits. Gunter was requested to furnish enough suits for two crews for each B-36 featherweight.” On 1 November Colonel Houghton and Major Hall conferred with Major J. I. Kendall of the 3882nd School Group at Gunter AFB, regarding the T-1 suits. The Commander of the Eighth Air Force had earlier notified ARDC that the T=-1 pressure suits were inadequate for the mission requirement and that S-2 pressure suits were desired. ARDG replied that T-1 and S=-2 suits afforded equal protection for descent to safe altitude, and had requested that SAC and Task Group 7.4 resolve this prob= lem. The problem at Gunter was that Task Group 7. 4 requirements called for a descent from maximum obtainable altitude to 45,000 feet. Major Bachman, B-36 Featherweight Project Officer, stated that the B-36 would descend from maximaltitude to 45,000 feet at a rate of 1500 to 2000 feet per minute, with no damage to the aircraft. Major Kendall, Altitude Project Officer at the School of Aviation Medicine, assured the Task Group 7.4 representatives that either the T-1 or the S-2 would furnish ample protection for the CASTLE mission. AFWLUHG Four extra helmet