their mission and get back to base.-° When the aircraft landed at Eniwetok, special crews of the 926th Test Squadron removed the filter papers, installed them in lead containers, and placed them aboard long-range transport aircraft for the flight to the United States, The gas samples were transported to Perry Island, 27 Later on the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory reported that these samples collected from BRAVO were the best taken from any detonation in the Pacific ,-° - - The second shot, ROMEO, was postponed 17 times. This caused some trouble and changes in plansforthe Test Aircraft Unit of Task Group 7.4, and others .-” As delays piled up, General Estes informed General Mills that Task Group 7. might be overseas for a long time. "If we wait for the ideal winds desired," General Estes wrote, "we will have to wait for a typhoon and a fire on the back side of it. Seems to be only one typhoon comes every four years, so this may be a long TDY." 30 Problems caused by the delays were serious, however, While waiting for the shots to be fired, aircraft suffered from drying up of seals in hydraulic lines, corrosion of metal surfaces, valves which stuck, and moisture corrosion of electrical surfaces, troubles was to fly them, One way to prevent these The Air Task Group "exercised" its aircraft and on one occasien it was discovered that two B-36 aircraft could not retract landing gears, while a number of F-8,G aircraft wouldnot feed fuel from their tip and pylon tanks because of stuck valves, To counteract the deterioratiam resulting from such idleness, General Estes reported to General Clarkson, task force commander, ", , , I am taking the risk 106 AFWi/do SWEH-2-003) fo \" rr