Is the antenna near vertical up or down from the elevation of the orbit? Is the drogue like a parasail?
I read an account of the Shemya flights, spook planes of course. Quite a place and quite a bunch of fliers.
You must have gotten more TDY than you wanted.
Sorry for the late reply, just saw ur post. No, the two wires angle down about 120 degrees and for a J pole antenna. You fly in an orbit with a 30 degree angle of bank. We transmitted and were copied world wide.