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BUSTER CHARLIE.
The third event occurred on 30 October 1951, when
a Kirtland plane dropped another device over the Nevada Test Site.
B-29 aircraft and two T-33 aircraft collected samples,
Two
The third B-29
sampler collected samples from the cloud five hours after detonation,
Control of the T-33 samplers was still unsatisfactory,
The aircraft
controllers set-up a grid map so the B-29 samplers could give more
accurate cloud positions.
Control was further complicated, however,
by not having electroni:s equipment at the control point, and Colonel
Fackler observed the sampler aircraft through field glasses.
At this
point, it was decided the radiological officers should have more control
over the aircraft as another possible solution.”
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BUSTER DOG. The DOG Shot was dropped on 1 November 1951.
The cloud
retained its "puff" configuration for a long time and four samplers had
little trouble with their missions.>-
BUSTER EASY,
A Kirtland aircraft dropped EASY on 6 November 1951,
and the largest array of the operation gathered data from the shot.
Both B-29 samplers suffered difficulties,
The first had engine trouble
and was unable to climb above 31,000 feet and returned with a poor
sample,
The second B-29 aircraft made one pass through the cloud and
the radioldgical officer reported the crew had been exposed to an
extremely high radiation dosage,
After he repeated the reading with the
same results, the radiological officer at the control point ordered the
aircraft to return to base immediately,
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