=» NtiAE 18 August 1958, the C-54 aircraft of the Fixed Wing Element flew over 100% of their programmed flying hours. this tempo slacken. Only with the end of the operation in sight did The C-~54's of the Fixed Wing Element carried 12,785 pas- sengers and 1,882,018 pounds of cargo during the operational phase of HAPDTACK. To perform thes? tasks they generated 2522 flying hours. During the months April through July, C-54's of the Fixed Wing Element flew more than 80 hours per month per assigned aircraft. The C-54's of the Aerial Photo Element sug- mented this effort by flying 1101 passengers and160,886 pounds of cargo, which generated 29) flying hours. See Figure 14 for a summary of C-54 Flying Activities. The only problems arising from the operation of the C-54 aircraft arose from over-flying programmed flying hours, which made it difficult - to schecule the aircraft into maintenance in as orderly a fashion as night” he desired, and caused a few AOCP's late in the operation. Durinz the build-up phases of EARDTACK, the L-20 aircraft flew a busy. schedule. The principal areas of L-20 operation were between ELMER and FRED Islands in the Eniwetok Atoll and between NAN and PETER-ODOE Islands in the Bikini Atoll. Through July, a schedule of a flight every 20 minutes beti-een ELVER and rRED beginning at 0740 in the morning and continuing until 1630 in the afternoon was maintained. As the operational phase progressed the texpo of light aircrart airlift increased and many calls for special airlift were received in addition to the regularly scheduled flights. Early in June, in response to the request of Cormander, Task Group 7.1, another L~20 was assigned to Bikini making the division of aircraft five (5) at FRED and three (3) at NAN instead of the six (6) to two (2) ratio COPIEDSUF PLAKLRG 197 . CONSEM 107