“| “EePKR TT ay During the month of April the missicr. requiremerts were accelerated rom the one (i) per day planned to two (2) per day. On 20 April, the mission schedule was boosted up to three (3) missions per day, two (2) early mcrning flights and cne (i) afterroon flight, with take-off times at 0430 and 0500 fcr the morning flights and 1630 for the evening flight. In May, the Weather Reconnaissance Element flew seventy-eight missions of which seventy-three were weather reconnaissance missions, four (4) were cioud sampler missions and cre (1) was a three (3) hour radsafe mission combined with a weather recorzaissance. Only one (1) late take-off occurred during May ard six (€) aborts were experienced. of the aborts were beyone mission credit point. Two Two flights aborted short of missiors credit but were not required to be made up. For the month of May, mission requirements for D minus 2 and D ninis I days were increased t< three (3} fcr eazh day. Three missions were flown on eighteen days in May, two (2) missions on eleven (11) days and one (1) missicn cn twe (2) days. The element maintained the capability for three’ (3) missions per day throughout the menth bit a lull in shooting activity during the middle cf the month resulted in several days when orly two (2) missions per day were required, During the menth of June, seventy-nine missions were flown, seventyone being weather missions. four (4) :zloud sampler missions, three (3) cyclone reconraissanve missions and one (1) ferry flight. There was only cne (1) late take-off during this pericdsand of nine (9) aborts five (5) cccurred pris: to missicr. credit poirt. Orly four (4) of these five (5) required a make ap flight to complete the mission. One ferry mission was flowr as a resiit of an aircraft aborting the trazk and landing at Wake Island. The aircraft was farried tc Hickam for repairs and later flew a Weather mission or the return flight tc Encwetoke COPIED/DOE > LANL RC 73. € NF] Ci; IAL: <J>>