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April 13, 1956
Operation Redwing - Travel in Jet Aircraft
UCRL is responsible for conducting its radiochemistry diagnostics on
UCRL shots at Bikini and Eniwetok.
Personnel from cur Chemistry
Department will ride as passengers on B-57 twin-engine jet aircraft.
Our personnel will sit behind the pilot in an observer's seat. The
B-57 aircraft will act as a mother ship sitting outside the main
cloud in a position wherein they can tell accompanying aircraft
where to go within a cloud in order to accomplish sampling.
Our
personnel will each participate in a check-out flight and thereafter
up to four flights. The duration of each flight could be from four
to five hours.
Landings and take-offs will be from Eniwetok Island.
Roger Batzel has advised that certain life insurance policies of the
individuals concerned exclude jet aircraft travel and in some instances
military aircraft travel. To the best of my knowledge, the blanket
Lloyd's of London policy does not exclude the above activity.
The following personnel will be involved in the above program during
Operation Redwing: K. Street, R. Batzel, R. Goeckermann, P. Stevenson,
W. Crane and G. Higgins.
I thought you would want this advance information in that in the event
of a disaster the case concerned might be a candidate for consideration
under the welfare clause,
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