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to get the engine to respond as advertised.

- We are also experiencing a rash of "shaky or vibrating air-
craft" when loaded with four X's of 87's. Certain aircraft are
reported to experience wing flutter of up to three feet in
flight. So far we have restricted these aircraft to certain
munitions loads.

JAN 29: DAY 13

- The frag was again basically the same. We are still
experiencing the wing flutter and generated a message telling
what we found. Other wings to include Mcintyre, Torrejon, and
Syracuse have been finding the same thing. The wing king says no
4 X CBU 87's, only Parent Mounts.

- We lost one line on the third 24 ship ground abort.

- We are gearing up for a heavy schedule on Thursday. To keep
all jets available for the schedule, I have directed that none go
into phase the next day or in for a gun annual or scheduled
inspections.

- The cross country bird at Riyadh (a/c 1407) ground aborted
again. This time for A system hydraulics reading high. Had the
pilot stuck with the jet for a little longer, it probably could
have been fixed.

JAN 30: DAY 14

- Early this morning we changed munitions to a mix of 84's and
87's to go after a new target. The F-4's had spotted six Flog-
gers on the ground uncovered which we decimated.

- The cross country bird made it home Code 1. The maintenance
folks will come home tomorrow due to the Star Mission's schedule.

- The message came in restricting 87's to only Parent mount, no
TER's.

- All sorties flew successfully filling a 24 X 24 X 24 schedule.


JAN 31: DAY 15
- Today we scaled back from 96 to 64 lines. Munitions configura-
tions were Mk 20's and Mk 82's. We were fragged with 16 X 16 X
16 X 16.

- We have been having problems with hangers. Today after the
first go recoveries we had three. There was a lot of carts
identified as bad and changed out.

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