XI¥Y evaluated current operational procedures, techniques, and equipment used in accomplishing the data phase of indirect bomb damage assessment of muclear weapons. To accomplish this mission, 3 B-l7 aircraft, 3 combat crews, and 36 support personnel participated in REDWING, Each aircraft had cameras to photograph bomb burst and fireball, with instruments to determine yield, and with equipment to determine precise aircraft speed and range, The Wright Air Development Center Weapons Effect Element used seven aircraft in pursuing its mission: an F-10lA, and two F-8F, a B-l7E, an RB-52B, a B-66B, a B-57B, One of the two F-8LF aircraft was a capabilities” aircraft; the other was a side loads effect aircraft, The Early Penetration Element utilized pilots and B-57B aircraft from the 3hSth Bombardment Group and the hOSth Bombardment Group, Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, and from the 61st Bombardment Group, Blytheville. Air Force Base, Arkansas, Command. These groups belonged to the Tactical Air Their mission was the securing of information by early penetration of nuclear clouds at high altitudes, The Navy Effects Element used an A3C and a P2V aircraft furnished by the Naval Air Special Weapons Facility, Kirtland Air Force Base, and basically concerned itself with the determination of response of aircraft structures to thermonuclear explosions, The Ionospheric Element, a detachment from the Air Force Cambridge Research Center, consisted of 21 personnel and a specially instrumented JC-97 aircraft. The plane had the only airborne ionospheric recorder in 269 AFWL/HO SWEH ~2-CO3L,