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At Eglin, personnel worked out drone operations
and, later, training of the unit at Eniwetok continued until the GREENHOUSE
shots were scheduled.
Drones at- GREENHOUSE.
1951.
The first shot fired on the morning of 8 April
Before DOG Shot, Colonel Gent's drone unit launched a good many
aircraft. , The two 1-33 drones, with their control aircraft, were scheduled
to take blast and gust measurements,
on takeoff and crashed,
The first drone went out of control
The second T-33 scraped a wingtip on takeoff but
continued on and completed its mission,
One of two B-l7 drone aircraft
also scheduled to take blast measurements, aborted because itdid not
respond to controls.
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The fleet of aircraft presented a large array.
There were 20 B-17
aircraft in the vicinity of the detonation to secure samples.
Eight of
these were drones, 8 were directors, and the remaining l were master
control aircraft,
The drones were stacked at 2,000-foot intervals from
16,000 to 30,000 feet.
Sampling went as scheduled, excepting for the drone
at 26,000 feet altitude which suddenly stopped responding to signals from
its control aircraft.
By the time the master aircraft regained control,
there was no time to guide it through the cloud.
With this exception, all
the drones took good samples.-°
EASY Shot followed on 21 April 1951, On this occasion both T-33 drones
were lost.
One received heavy damage from the shock wave, lost control,
and crashed; the second was not so badly damaged bt refused to respond
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