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only the B-57D could qualify as the required sampling aircraft.
Meanwhile all agencies continued their efforts in the work of insuring
that B-57D aircraft were approved and furnished with suitable modifications
and sampling equipment.
Dr. Plank wrote Lieutenant Colonel Richard J,
Hynes, Director of Operations for the 950th Test Group (Nuclear) on 2h
January 1957, and he sent another to Dr. Graves on 25 January 1957, and
Dr. Graves to K. F. Hertford, 5 March 1957,
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Admiral Hanlon assured Dr,
Felt that he fully agreed to the collusion between all agencies to insure
getting the B-57D,
"I've instructed my staff to assist in this procurement
in any way that the operational requirements of HARDTACK will support,"
he wrote, 4?
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Slightly more than four years after lending his first written support
to the B-57 procurement campaign, Dr. Graves repeated the requirements to
Brigadier General Canterbury.
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He further enlarged the requirements to
include ten B-l;7B and four B-57B aircraft.
He also sent notice of his
intentions to use his influence with the Division of Military Applications
to obtain that agency's assistance in getting the planes,
Once fairly sure that their joint needs would be met on time by
delivery of the B-57D, that confidence was jarred solidly as shown by a
note of 26 February1957.
Colonel Carney exhibited extreme concern
resulting from the receipt of information that the B-57D would not be
available prior to 1960, or not in time for use during HARDTACK.Y? A
"pi pgyback" sampling installation on a B-57D owned by Strategic Air Command
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