Mea weg? gem ee 4 2 OR oh TORRE PTeyete oo ae Pes 2 Tyr a r, Project 5.3 - In-Flight Participation of a B-G&éB Aircraft - R. W. Bachman RIECTIVE The primary objective of this test was to measure the gust, thermal, overpressure and high Q field effects of a nuclear weapon on a B-66B aircraft in low altitude flight. INSTRUMERX TATION yy Instrumentation on the BCéB tor IBMT (apache) conaisted of the following: €7 strain gages at 5 stations and 26 thermocouples at 7 stations . on the L,H, wings; 16 strain gages at 1 station and 6 thermocouples at 2 stations on the R.H. wing; 25 strain gages at 4 stations and 12 thermo- couples at 2 stations on the L.H. horizontal stabilizer; 9 strain gages at 1 station and 2 thermocouples at 1 station on the R.H. horizontal stabilizer; 3 strain gages at 1 station and 9 thermocouples at 3 stations on the L.H, elevator; 2 strain gages at 1 station and 6 thermocouples at 1 station on the R.A, elevator; 5€ thermocouples at 1] stations on the fuselage; 17 acceleroneters on the fuselage, empenage, and nacelle; 13 calorimeters and 1 radiometer together with 6 cameras in the tail; 5 calorimeters and 1 radiometer together with € cameras in the fuselage belly; wing and tail deflection cameras; 32 basic flight inatruments on a photo recorder panel; and 8 correlation channels, AIRCRAFT POSITION IN SPACE Using the K-5 Radar system, the B-663 was positioned at an altitude of 8,000 feet, on a heading of 080 degrees, and a horizontal range of SNL 15