<<< How is the film on the Navy/Airforce tank wound? Is on a stainless
steel reel as in a 35mm processing tank?
OFF TOPIC
btw Sid, Congratulations on subduing Matagorda Island in the Gulf of
Mexico.<wink> I flew over them a few years ago and could see no enemy
activity--or bomb craters. (snip) ---William Nettles>>>
No, the film wound back and forth from one spool to the other. That
was one of the reasons for running it back and forth through water
first, to make sure that the film was evenly wetted and did not have one
turn sticking to the next (which happened to me once in 2 1/2 years of
processing and was near the end of a roll where there were no images).
As for craters on Matagorda, they were minimal in size since they
were caused by sunlight photons reflecting from the ground rather than
impact of anything solid. The drill at the time was for a fully armed
B-47 coming off alert status to fly a bombing run over targets on the
island. Everything would go as for a real run except for arming and
releasing the fusion weapons. When the various clocks ticked through
their timing periods, light blips were made on the edge of the film from
which the predicted point of impact could be calculated. That avoided
the necessity of actually dropping anything from the aircraft, a
practise quite suitable for long-range nuclear bombers but not useful
for attack fighters where physical release of a suitable training device
that reasonably duplicates the actual weapon is necessary. Usually a
smoke/flash marker is sufficient but still involves stuff falling on the
heads of any protesters in the target area.
bye, sid
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