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Flagpole Grapple Z
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Date: 17:24 UTC 02/09/1958 |
Type: Air drop @2850m |
Yield: 1Mt
Flagpole was dropped on the morning of September 2 from a Valiant piloted by Bill Bailey and exploded at an altitude of 2850m, it missed the target by 86m. The maximum diameter of the fireball was measured as being 2590m. Three Canberra aircraft flew cloud sampling missions, one of these spending over 11 minutes in the radioactive cloud. The crew received radioactive doses of 100 milliSieverts.
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Published on: 2005-12-18 (9552 reads) [ Go Back ] |
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