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While this appears to be a rather poor utilization of aircraft, closer
examination disclose@ that many missions were flown with priority passengers
going one way, and the return trip, which was also considered a mission,
was frequently flown without passen-ers.
.Therefore, the eetwad number of
passen-ers on ordered or schedule’missions actually averaze between 3 and
l passeners per mission,
Scheduling of TG 7.1 passengers on intra-atoll flights was initiall,
done by J-3.
However, it soon became apparent that this was an unnecessaz:
step in the procedure and arrangements were made for all personnel to make
reservations with the HtN dispatcher either directly or through their Task
Units,
J-3 continued to schedule all flights on minus one days anc shot days
in order to insure maximum utilization of aircraft and to keep track of personnel movement for muster purposes.
This arran ement was satisfactory to
all concerned and no problem was encountered in the scheduling of passengers
at Bikini.
Durinc the Sycamore event wiich required evacuition of the entire atoll,
the L-20 aircr2ft were evacuated on an LST and were not available -after noon
deminus one day§andco2a2-subsequent minus one day§,
Although deprived
of the use of L-20's for a week during the Sycamore event, there was no
critical shortage of aircraft since sufficient helicopters were available
to an in for the L-20's,
For the Poplar event, however, the L-20's were
flown to a position some 20 miles sduth of Inyu during time of detonation.
Durin; these periods of total evacuation, the helicopters were evacuated
on minus one days to the Boxer (ijonticello in case of Poplar).
This was
done just before dark each day, at which time the need for airlift had ter-
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minated,
Since the copters cetarked shortly after daylicht on days when
the shot hrd been postponed,no immairment of onerations was caused by evac-
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