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But it was explained that when the pilot, who was enjoying letting it hang out a bit shot through just clearing a very small tight gap on a ridge line the bonzer zeroed out too fast sending a spurious signal into my stack causing some sort of cascading electrical failure that discharged, or took off-line, the on board batteries.
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I was just an 18 year old kid, didn't do the install, and the assumed cause was related to me well after the fact. To feed a recording altimeter signal to my gear a through a hull opening apparently it, or the instrument stack necessitated the removal of the Emergency Locator Beacon.this would play a factor later on. Pilot had to keep as constant an 200 ft elevation above ground as possible so I could more readily do the math later reducing recorded radiation levels a to a common baseline so there was some interesting yanking and banking terrain following flight profiles. Just after the Vietnam War our pilot, a former warrant officer, really enjoyed the nap of the earth flying we were doing.lots more fun than sedate flying of real estate types around at altitude, plus no one was shooting at him. Low level, we scarred many a herd of antelope and mustang, whose brood mares or stallions would give us the evil eye before fleeing. Low man on the totem pole, I was to manage strip chart recording gear in the back as we "mowed the lawn" flying grids back and forth chasing down reported radiation anomalies from the Bureau of Mines NURE program. I was just a teenage summer intern working for a Pathfinder Mines, a uranium exploration outfit.