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OPERATIONS ORDER NO, 2-54
CONTROL RB-36 FLIGHT PROCEDURES
HEADQUARTERS .
TASK GROUP 7.4, PROVISIONAL
APO 187, c/o Postmaster
San Francisco, California
26 February 1954 1800M
1. MISSION: To control all aircraft in the sampling area; to direct
F~84 and FB-36 sampling missions as required; to accomplish certain photo~
graphic missions; and to provide required radiological data to the Command
Ship.
2. RESPONSIBILITIES 1 The Commander, Test Aircraft Unit, and ‘the
Senior Task Group 7.4 Controller, will assure that the provisions of this
Annex are carried out.
3. PROCEDURES:
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On B-Day, the Control RB-36, call sign CASSIDY, will take-off
as scheduled in Annex "C" (Aircraft Mission Execution Chart), CASSIDY
will climb to H-Hour orbit altitude over FRED and will make wind runs while
proceeding from FRED to orbit position. The pilot will call the AOC, call
sign DIRTY FACE, on VHF Channel "C",
DIRTY FACE will check all modes of
IFF and HF air-ground Channel J-410 while CASSIDY 1s proceeding to his
assigned H-Hour position as designated in Annex "D" (Aircraft H-Hour
Positions and Flight Patterns). DIRTY FACE will maintain control until
CASSIDY is approximately 90 miles from Bikini, then instruct CASSIDY to
contact the CIC, call sign BOUNDARY TARE on VHF Channel "F" for control.
IFF will be squawking wode 2,
b.
The BOUNDARY TARE Controller will establish radio and IFF con-
tact with CASSIDY and provide the aircraft with range and bearing to its
assigned H-Hour position, to perform cloud measurement photography, Details
of this mission will be supplied by Task Group 7.1. CASSIDY will hold at
‘this position with BOUNDARY TARE providing range and bearing information, as
required, from ground zero. At H~Hour, cloud measurement photographs will be
accomplished.
Rendezvous of CASSIDY and STABLE ONE (1) will be accomplished
by BOUNDARY TARE through radar control on VHF Channel "F",. CASSIDY will
then proceed on its primary mission. STABLE ONE (1) will remain on "Ft
Channel, showing mode 2 IFF. BOUNDARY TARE will provide each element of
F-84 samplers, call sign TIGER RED, WHITE, or BLUE, with range and bearing .
to CASSIDY on VHF Channel "F", When TIGER aircraft are within radar range
of CASSIDY, the BOUNDARY TARE Controller will notify the CASSIDY Rendezvous
Controller, call sign CASSIDY CQNE, the TIGER element's relative position.
Continuous positions will be given to both CASSIDY ONE and TIGER aircraft
until CASSIDY ONE makes positive radio and IFF contact with TIGER air~
crait, CASSIDY ONE will then assume control. CASSIDY ONE will turn control of the TIGER element over to sampler Controller, call sign CASSIDY
TWO, on VHF Channel "E",
sampling mission.
CASSIDY TWO will direct the TIGER aircraft
Upon completion thereof, CASSIDY TWO will instruct the
TIGER elément to return to "F" Channel and call CASSIDY ONE.
CASSIDY ONE
will rendesvous the TIGER element and give the lead aircraft a bearing
and range to BOUNDARY TARE or DIRTY FACE, maintaining control until
BOUNDARY TARE or DIRTY FACE establishes radio and IFF contact with TIGER
aircraft and accepts positive control,
TASK GROUP 7.4.
OPRS ORDER NO. 2-54
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