XIII the single side band set was necessary, All were in perfect operating order for the trip.2! Every item possible was preplanned.and supply prepackaged in aluminum flyaway kits, made lists of the location of all items, and marked all the kits, Each of the two C-12l aircraft was loaded with the kits according to the accessibility requirements enroute, Easy access to tools and equipment from the kits facilitated enroute maintenance. On 17 October 1960, the two C-12h Globemaster aircraft left Kirtland with some 7,000 poands of cargo, 33 enlisted and 3 officer personnel, The following day, five B-57B aircraft departed, one of which as spare went only as far as Travis Air Force Base, California, - The four deploying B-57B and the two C-12) aircraft arrived in Australia six days later, having flown more than 8,000 miles, The total enroute flight time for the B-57 aircraft was 23 hours and 15 minutes .-° The longest overwater leg, that from Travis to Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, a distance of 2,135 nautical miles, was flow with a 30-knot headwind component, in 5 hours and 30 mimates, It was flown without having to jettison the wing tip fuel tanks, as was originally planned for, with considerable saving for Air Force, All the overwater legs of the deployment flew in coordination with the Strategic Air Command U-2 aircraft deploying under CROW FLIGHT VI, thus affording the B-57 aircraft the search and rescue coverage given the Strategic Air Command, Two C-5l aircraft were in orbit on all the legs except from Hickam to Canton Island, where only one rescue aircraft 275 AFWL/HC SWEH -2-003; 94 toa