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Atomic Cloud as Seen From Plane,

B-36 airplanes,

Operation TEAFOT

But the sampling mission got off to a bad start:

three

F-8LG and one B-36 aircraft were unable to climb high enough to reach
the nuclear cloud, thus, the cloud samples were collected by one F-8hG
and one B-36, and the two B-S7A aircraft,

The four aircraft found the

cloud had scattered quickly and was impossible to identify.

piloted one B-S7A with
operator.

as the radiation

The other pilot was

served as radiation operator.

Ereth airplanes made one pass into

the cloud and returned to Indian Sprines Air Force Base.”

During MET

Shot,

in the observer's

seat, made four nuclear cloud fenetrations which kert the =-S7A in the

cloud for a total of 2 minutes and LO seconds .°

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The last sampling mission

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