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Declassified 341st SMW unit histories

USAF via The Black Vault · 88 pages · text by OCR

This Black Vault release contains the Air Force's 2001 response from the 341st Space Wing FOIA office at Malmstrom AFB, Montana, to a request about the 16 March 1967 Echo Flight missile shutdown, with excerpts from 341st Strategic Missile Wing histories covering 1967 to early 1968. The histories say all ten Echo Flight launch facilities lost strategic alert almost simultaneously. Investigators could not find a logical cause and found rumors of UFOs near Echo Flight to be unfounded.

  • p. 26 …THE TASK GROUP WILL CONVENE AT BOEING, SEATTLE ON 4 APRIL TO DEVELOP A TEST PLAN…
  • p. 28 …19 C-208 RUNNBAA/AFPRO BOEING CO SEATTLE WASH RUWJABA/BSD NORTON AFB CALIF BT 9…
  • p. 29 …APB MONT RUWMDAA/APPRO THE BOEING CO SEATTLE WASH RUWJABA/BSD NORTON AFB CALIF C GONE…
  • p. 33 …The group was to reconvene at Boeings' Seattle plant on 4 April 67 for development of…
  • p. 42 …DURING TESTING AT BOEING, SEATTLE. A 30 MICRO SECOND PULSE TO 10 TORG VOLT SQUARE WAVE…
  • p. 44 …BOX 1915 - SEATTLE, WASH. 9824 (BOE 720) ENGINEERING CHANGE PROPOSAL FACILITY DATE 27 December 1966 1…
  • p. 68 …BROADWAY SEATTLE 24, WASHINGTON ENGINEERING CHANGE PROPOSAL 1 MODEL OF THE MODEL Figure A 1248 VES…
  • p. 70 …BOX 1955 SEATTLE, WASH. 9824 (BOE 720) ENGINEERING CHANGE PROPOSAL FACILITY DATE 27 December 1966 1…
  • p. 79 …THE TASK GROUP WILL CONVENE AT BOEING, SEATTLE ON 4 APRIL TO DEVELOP A TEST PLAN…
  • p. 80 …AFB MONT RUWMDAA/APPRO THE BOEING CO SEATTLE WASH RUN 4804/NORTH AMERICAN AUTONETICS DIV ANAHEIM…
  • p. 81 …THE TASK GROUP WILL CONVENE AT BOEING, SEATTLE ON 4 APRIL TO DEVELOP A TEST PLAN…
there was a power transfer. Headquarters, 15th AF ordered a test to determine if the channel 20 was being caused by noise or a phase sequence problem. If phase relation was the problem, it could possibly damage both the motor generator and the G&C cooler compressor unit. The test was to cover such items as current draw, voltage drop and the phase relation between the primary power and the 206 volt, t0 hertz (cycles per second) motor generator output at the time of the power transfer. 86

(U) a meeting on the ViSA channel 20 alarm and direct current to alternating current problem was held at Sm SU Headquarters, Norton AFD, California, on 27 February. Field tests were required before any corrective action could be planned however. The 341st DCH and the Boeing Company conducted a joint study to determine the frequency of the channel 20 alarms by site, and by date, with all related material. The tests were begun in late February and continued through to the end of the quarter. 87

## MODIFICATION - EMP TESTING

(U) In direct relation to an incicont covered in the April June 1967 history of the 341st SKW was the Electro-Nagnetic Pulse

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