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Description April 6, 1953 - DIXIE Event - Las Vegas, NV, April 6, 1953 - USAF mechanics at Indian Springs Air Force Base are shown calibrating radio-control equipment in a QF-80 drone (pilotless aircraft) which was used in penetrating the radioactive cloud resulting from today's atomic detonation in Nevada. Drone take-offs are under the direction of two mother ships, DT-33's, but navigation and control during the final approach and penetration of the atomic cloud is passed to a ground control station. Control of the drones is returned to the mother ships as the drones reappear from the cloud. In this morning's test operation the drones used were returned safely to Indian Springs AFB about 20 minutes after the detonation. The landings were also directed from the ground-control station at Indian Springs AFB.
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