PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED programed pattern while waiting for the 8-29 aircraft to drop the bomb. A fifth B-l7 bomber, the master control aircraft, also circled with the others over Bikini Lagoon.-° ~ A command aircraft, with ; and aboard, circled over the test area on the lookout for any last minute changes to the air pattern while the B-29, arriving with the bomb, reported bombs away and at approxinately 0900 ABLE exploded over the target fleet.” At this point, the control aircraft, MARMALADE TWO, turned its B-17 drone, FOX, toward the risingcloud at an altitude of 24,000feet. As the drone neared the atomic cloud, MARMALADE TWO released it on automatic pilot and drone FOX entered the cloud-about eight minutes after explosion, MARMALADE TWO speeded up, circling around the cloud carefully, and when FOX drone came out the other side, again took command and began the trip back to Eniwetok, At 0920 GEORGE drone entered the cloud at 30,000 feet altitude, The control B-17 was heavily loaded with fuel and, when it had circled the cloud, GEORGE drone had already come out and was headed away. The master drone control aircraft then took control of GEORGE until the control aircraft caught up, by LOVE drone at 0922, At 0921 HOW drone entered the cloud followed Both were recovered by their control aircraft, The four B-17 drones were flown back to Eniwetok and turned over to the drone controllers in jeeps at the end of the runway, Al] four drmes landed and taxied to the radiological safety area, Radiologists and project personel removed the air bags and fuselage filters, loaded them aboard a transport aircraft, and flew them to Kwajalein for laboratory 9 APWALHO SWEH-2~-003); 4%