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AFSWC History Office
A 24 November message from AFSWC to Systems Command Headquarters
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notes that the AEC Laboratories have requested that the two C-130's stay at
Kirtland for continued improvement and testing of the installed instrumentation,
Further, "to date, AFSWC has flown two test flights which were successful
only in that many of the flaws in the system were found.
AFSWC is at this time
planning a full scale exercise off the West Coast involving all the aircraft in the
test already described in the Open Sea Blue Straw operations plan.
: AFSWC
proposed that it is neither feasible nor timely to return the two C-130B's now
at Kirtland to TAC.
AFSWC further proposed that these two C-130B aircraft
be transferred to AFSC and to AFSWC to be employed as airborn diagnostic
laboratories in support of the AEC,"
“4 Nov. 61, J-16 Report:
Personnel in this who have been involved in sone
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lecal area work, report that work is now being postponed in this area temporarily
due to their being assigned to set up an airborne EM recording station. R. Wakefield,
Benton, Tatro, and Black are involved in test acitivities at Kirtland as follows:
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Equipment has been installed in a USAF C-130 aircraft for airborne measurement of
the EM signal generated by nuclear weapons.
The set up consists.
of antenna, cathode follower, six. Oscilloscope, and associated equipment.
station was set up
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on an accelerated basis with equipment that was available at
the time, and will undoubtedly be modified and additional equipment be added before
actual use, if time permits.
The equipment is, however, very near a state of
readiness at the present time."