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compartment, above the fuselage,
modified B-29,

Air Materiel Command supplied a third

These three were flown to Kirtland Air Force Base in

August 1951 but they had hardly arrived when the Atomic Energy
Commission desired additional wing box filters to be installed by the

maintenance crews of the Lgesthe? On the other hand, the Air Proving
Ground Command supplied jet aircraft for the sampling,

Three T-33

aircraft, plus pilots, radiological officers, and maintenance personnel
comprised the Eglin group, under the command of Captain Edwin R, Kregloh.”°
The Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory desiged, supplied, and owed

the sampling equipment for mamned sampling.

With the exception of AFOAT

equipment used for long-range, low-level sampling, this included

outfitting the T-33, F-8), B-36, and the current B-57 equipment,

The

Laboratory's contractors were Professor Elliott Reid from Stanford
University on aerodynamics; Tracerlab for design and construction an the

T-33, F-8h, and B-36 aircraft; and the Glenn L. Martin, Solar Aircraft,
and Century Engineers furnished the equipment on the B-57,

They were

built into the fuel tanks, but there was not enough time to rework the
T-33 aircraft so the tanks could also carry fuel.

Therefore, during

Operation BUSTER/JANGLE the T-33 samplers had very limited ranges!

But,

by October 1951, the six sampler aircraft were ready and, on 10 October
1951, three B-29 and three T-33 aircraft moved to Indian Springs Air
Force Base.
The 92Sth Test Group (Atomic) borrowed further,

Three B-29

weather aircraft came from the 57th Reconnaissance Squadron, at Hickam

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