IX the scale, As he completed the pass through the cloud, he banked so sharply for a second pass that the blood rushed from my head. We had pulled several times the force of gravity and my hands were frozen against my knees, but the right tum was a requirement to get back. into the rapidly dissipating cloud, Our second reading was five roentgens, the third was 21/2, In all we made about a dozen passes through the mass before. Dr, Edward Flemming (University of California Radiation Laboratory sampler controller aboard the sample control B-57 airplane) told us to return to the base, As we left the shot area, I threw a switch to close the butterfly valves on the wing tanks, We had obtained oar samples of radioactive dust for the laboratories. The sleek jets touched down om the runway, and radiological safety officers prepared to remove us from the plane, without touching the "hot" sides of the craft, The samples from the wing tip tanks were also removed remotely, and I were both given a thorough going over with a geiger counter, I was prenounced safe, but the pilot's hands were radioactive. A little soap and water removedthat hazard and we adjourned to the officers! club to collect our reward for beating the other two planes back to the base, Pilots from the 4926th counted 88 cloud sampling sorties on 29 shots, with a total of 97 hours with B-57B samplers, squadron stood by only, On a number of shots, the During Phase II, the 926th added a number of "firsts" to its record, Pilots sampled 29 shots within the short span of 49 days. On 22 October, the Squadron flew four missions on four different shots, three of which were full-scaled nuclear blasts, On 21 October, pilots performed the first night cloud sampling operation for the SANFORD Shot, making use of the clear sky and light from a full moon, Finally, for the first time, they flew through a cloud with three nationally-known newsmen, 21 190 AFWL/HO SWEH -2-0034 es