Silly
(NAVAJO)
Project 9.1 - Technical pho raphy - Lt Col Jack G, James
Three 9,1 RB~5SO aircraft participated on this event.
This
was the first shot of the series where all thres rhoto planes had
an unrestricted view of the detonation and resulting cloud from
E Hour to Plus One Nour,
Cenditions fer cloud photography were
considered excellent by al? threc photo navigators.
Carter 1, positioned at 110 Nautical Miles Yast of Ground
Zero entered his photo orbit at 27,997 feet and had three sucCces§l] 15 minute runs without change of altitude.
Carter 2, positioned at 119 Nautical Miles South of Ground
ne
Zero had an identical cucecessful mission as Carter 1.
Carter 3, positioned 130 Nautical Miles West of Cround
Zero encounters? lish? cirrus at 20,970 feet at aprroximately Minus
39 Minutes,
The aircraft climbed out to 39,999 feet and were pro-
perly repositioned at Zero Time.
Two gooi 15 minute photo runs were
male, and a probable third accomplished.
No camera malfunctions were reported on any of the three
aircraft.
It fe anticipated that the cloud data resolved from this
mission wild qualitatively and quantitatively exceed any previous missions on either CASTI™ or REDWING Operations,
At H plus 2 1/2 hours the Program Director contacted Carter 1
through AOC and directed the aircraft to return to 34kini Area and
make two level photo mapping runs over Exju (an) Island to photo-
an
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graph wave penetration area ani any subsequent damage to camp area
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