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side-on positions, 2
On 18 March, the B-52, after being specially instrumented at the
boeing Aircraft plant at Seattle for HARDTACK participation, departed
from the Boeing site.
After several days of delay at Hickam jir Force
Base, because of adjustment and maintenance problems, the aircraft arrived
at Eniwetok on 31 March and was prepared for test activity.
The B52
engaged in several rehearsals and practices and 14 shots, and departed
from Eniwetok to the Zone of Interior on 15 July 1958, concluding the
activities of the Air Force Effects clement,
A third element of the Test Aircraft Unit was the Navy bffects
xlement, manned, trained, and equipped by Naval Air Special seapons
Facility, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico.
The element operated two
FJ4, two A4D, and one P2V aircraft in support of Bureau of Aeronautics
projects,
The element also provided, maintained, and operated M-33 radars
for precise positioning of Navy effects aircraft in the Eniwetok area,
The P2V departed from Kirtland jir Force Base on 25 January 1958
and arrived at kniwetok on 11 March,
The fighter aircraft, ail of
short range characteristics, left Kirtland on 10 March for Alameda Naval
Air Station California, where they were prepared for shipment to sni-
wetok,
They arrived at sniwetok on 2 April 1958.
Much of the supsly burden of Task Group 7.4 was aileviated by ar
rangements of the Navy effects siement to draw most of its maintenance
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