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68 years ago today

#1 Post by om15 » Tue Jun 28, 2016 6:36 pm

On 28 June 1948 the US launched Operation Plainfare which became known as the Berlin Airlift. Following the Russian blockade of Berlin, the only way to supply the population was by air.
Civil and military aircraft were pressed into service as cargo carriers, and several well known British airlines in the 1950's and 1960's were created by the Airlift.

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#2 Post by om15 » Tue Jun 28, 2016 6:36 pm

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#3 Post by om15 » Tue Jun 28, 2016 6:37 pm

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#4 Post by ian16th » Tue Jun 28, 2016 8:07 pm

........and the brand new Handley Page Hastings that went straight off the assembly lines to carry coal to Berlin.

There was still coal dust in them when they were scrapped.
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#5 Post by om15 » Tue Jun 28, 2016 8:36 pm

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#6 Post by om15 » Tue Jun 28, 2016 8:45 pm

Hastings TG503 in the Allied Museum, Berlin

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#7 Post by ian16th » Tue Jun 28, 2016 10:01 pm

I wonder how many of those pictured I worked on?
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#8 Post by Sisemen » Wed Jun 29, 2016 3:30 am

The one and only Hastings that I flew in, TG 536, ended up being shagged by a VC10

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#9 Post by Alisoncc » Thu Jul 07, 2016 3:06 am

Just looking through old passports and 47 years ago today I was flying that very same corridor into Tempelhof in the sharp end of a Pan-Am 707. IIRC there wasn't a lot of lateral leeway to get around Cb's and the like, which made for interesting flying.

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