PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVES VI advantage of the B-57A was lost because of its poor visibility, 7 meanwhile, received orders to return to Kirtland, The Center had borrowed a "B" model of the B-57 and he along with Dr. Plank, as a passenger in the rear position, spent part of one afternoon "wringing out" the airplane, The "BY had several improvements over the "A" model but specifically a redesigned canopy which was similar to that of a T-33 jet trainer, affording unobstructed view for both crew members. With this canopy the pilot could maneuver at high altitudes while the radiation observer kept an eye on thenuclear eloud,!° Much of the sampling for TEAPOT had become fairly routine; however, occasionally the pilots of the 926th Test Squadron (Sampling) reported minor malfunctions of equipment during a mission. On the fifth detonation, HORNET Shot, things were somewhat enlivened when F-8l pilots, maneuvering for a pass at the cloud, suddenly discovered two “extraneous F-8type planes" coming toward them, They abandoned the pass, momentarily, to evade the unauthorized visitors. During WASP PRIME Shot, the B-50 sampler control aircraft remained in the air over five hours, Earlier in the morning APPLE I had fired and the controller did not land until after completing both missions, For the firsttime, sampler pilots had to fly two missions in one morning: after APPIE they landed, filter papers were replaced and they were off to sample WASP prime, *? During Operation TEAPOT, the Air Force Special Weapons Center carried off experiments of its own. A project, called "Contact Radiation Hazard Associated with Contaminated Aircraft," had as one of its goals a survey 126 APHLZHO SWEH-2-003h, f \ US feytin