flight, 11% for unscheduled maintenmce and 05% for AOCP (See chart
facing page).
Overall utilization for March was 3.12 hours per day?
Attention is called to the fact that 59% of the figure for unscheduled
maintenance wes due to radiological contamination,
- A-program of aircraft corrosion control was instituted in which one
Man was aSsigned the full responsibility as Corrosion Control Agent. His
duties consisted of inspection and preventative maintenance of all types
of corrosion on the aircraft.
He also established and maintained a de-
tailed record of corrosion areas on ench aircraft and filed these with
the aircraft historical records.
Decontamination procedures were undertaken on two occasions to clean
Yadiological dust from shot day mission aircraft.
These procedures con-
sisted of thoroughly washing each aircraft with "gunk", then Tide anda
finish rinse of fresh water.
A decontamination period of five dayswes
required for the most heavily contaminated aircraft.
Seventeen aircraft
days were lost because of this requirement,
A prelininary roll up plan was drawn and submitted to the Materiel
Officer for planning purposes.
An effort was also made to elininate
all surplus equipment and supplies through turn-ins,and packaging for
return to the Elenent's home station (Hickar: AFB) via the unit C-54 on
1 April.
A total of 36 Unsatisfactory Reports have been submitted to date
(17 for March) however no chronte recurring difficulties have developed.
oF
SUPPLY
Supply activities for t!.is period were directed toward obtaining a
complete inventory and forecasting the needs of the Element through
3.
arerulvo
See Stat Section for Utilization Chart.