If there is plane trouble, the ships are either locked om & prescribed course or there will be a helicopter which will be in a standby position to take over. (The ships have an emergency control at the tip of the mast where everything oan be shut off; ‘apparently hand then helicopter is not instrumented to be a control, it is just to shut off if necessary.) Ogle mentioned that the conditions for flying planes around will be a little bad anyway, recalling the apparent weather change which occurred after Nike. There will be clouds and falleouts the aircraft will have to be doing considerable worrying about itself in addition to watching the ship. If it is flying above cloud cover it will have to position by radar. At zero time it will have to be where it can see the ships, and must be reasonably far away fram zero so that it does not get hurt. Also there is another requirement, that it not be where the falle out is ocourring. Kingsley said it could work from about 30 miles away. Someone asked about the 125 veople. Presumably the ships are moored either at Bikini or Buiwetok. To get them underway again requires 6 to 8 people, the rest will be taken off. They want them to live at Bikini, but Kingsley sees no reason why they cannot be evacuated, since they will not be used for decontamination. (They need them to bring the ships back, so cannot send them home.) The ahips get underway under their own power, and go out to some fringe area, perhaps 20 or 30 miles fron zero, this with 6 or 8 people to operate them. Two hours before the shot they go on drone and the people will have to be lifted off. The Task Force has expressed quite strongly that their preferred method of lifting them off ia by helicopter. Then at the end of eight hours tugs will pick up the ships and tow them baok. mooring. Two tugs will be tied up towing these ships to a position for It was TU+l5's feeling this could be in the Bikini lagoon, in order to cut down the time the tugs and other support shipe are tied up. One tug was to stand by for hosing down the two ships as a preliminary decontamination measure. (The purpose of the project is, of course, to proof test AW countermeasures-<the instrumented ship will be compared with the uninstrumented one by devices on the ship--b th “bu to be cleaned off for the next shot.) Pe=eut ey still have Curry asked whether these tug s will come out as part of 6.4 or whether they must be ones we have already re quested. Wewill This job plus towing the helico he ° pter barge commits these three; he joe not know how other other requirements, requirements there will be. This project also wants 2 LCi! ships as a clothes-change station and operate a ferry service for the sho Availab one to stand by the shower room, . le, the oth er one to they use a barge instead of an Lae Party people. an The DOD does have 3 It was suggested