Word: airlifts
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...parliamentary vigor as Europe had had in years. Up rose portly Socialist Carlo Schmid to pledge his party's cooperation with the Christian Democrats (who hold a slight majority). In the past, the Social Democrats had fought the Christian Democrats tooth & nail in every election; but the Berlin airlift had galvanized both parties into common enthusiasm and common sense...
...months since it began, the U.S. airlift-now the world's biggest and busiest airline-had piled up some impressive records. Between June 26 and Aug. 26 it had made 15,853 flights, hauled 100,398 tons of food and other vital supplies to blockaded Berlin. Even more impressive, the planes had shuttled back & forth during the worst summer Germany had seen in years. Despite all the rain, fog and even sleet, GCA had brought the planes in for 850 blind landings without an accident...
...success of GCA was something for U.S. commercial lines and the Civil Aeronautics Administration to study. Though commercial pilots have generally preferred ILS (instrument landing system) because they control landings themselves, many a commercial pilot on airlift duty has now been won over to GCA. Said one last week: "When I think of all the hours I've spent stacked up in the soup over New York, maybe this is the answer...
...should share the mounting cost of pioneering new transport types. By getting an average eight-hours-per-day out of each of its 192 planes, it has proved what oldtimers like Eddie Rickenbacker have long preached: that the more a plane is used, the better performance it gives. Said Airlift Boss Lieut. General Curtis LeMay last week: "Leave a plane on the ground and it starts deteriorating. But keep it in the air, with regular maintenance, and it thrives on steady and prolonged...
...airlift's five crashes, five fatalities, none has happened on GCA landings...