II shipment to the various laboratories involved, An AFOAT~-1 crew aided in this workduring the entire operation and Colonel Houghton's radiological safety personnel were on hand to gain experience in monitoring and sample paper removal, BUSTGR FAKER. 3h The second shot of the series was an airdrop. On 26 October 1951, the drop aircraft arrived over Las Vegas, Nevada, from Kirtland, but returned when the weather did not clear, later the drop occurred. pood samples, Two days Two B-29 samplers were in orbit and obtained The first of the T-33 jet samplers took part with a pilot and a radiological officer aboard, There were filter holders on the wingtips of the aircraft. Upon ordérs from Solonel Fackler's operation center at the control point, it took off from Indian Springs and made a spiral climb to the required altitude for sampling passes, The aircraft was depressurized and both crew members went on 100 per cent oxygen, After securing the samples, the T~33 returned to Indian Springs, where the process in the decontamination area was similar to that for B-29 samplers, This first experience with the T~33 aircraft indicated that some method of vectoring the aircraft to the cloud was needed because, without the fuel ordinarily carried in wingtip fuel tanks, the aircraft had a limited range of only one hour and five minutes, As a possible solution, Colonel Fackler had the B-29 aircraft sive five minute position reports on the cloud thereafter, uh AFWL/HO SWEH -2 -0035 (3