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Keeping his planes in the air more of the time than experts thought possible a few months ago, Tunner looks on the lift as a precision operation, not as an adventure or a political demonstration. VIPs alighting at Berlin's Tempelhof airdrome are disappointed to see only a dozen planes on the ground. Tunner is proud of it. He has cut the time needed for unloading, checking, briefing and refueling to 30 minutes. The crews do not usually go into the operations office; it comes to them: a meteorologist and an operations officer in a jeep, a portable snack...
Most air travelers have never heard of Gilfillan Brothers Inc., a small, bustling Los Angeles electronics and plane parts manufacturer. But all over the world, U.S. airmen know Gilfillan's gadget-the G.C.A. (ground-controlled approach) equipment for blind landings. At Berlin's Tempelhof Airdrome, two of Gilfillan's G.C.A. units are bringing in Allied transports through all kinds of weather. At Gander, Newfoundland, G.C.A. is guiding in U.S. Air Force and commercial planes. At New York's La Guardia Field, Chicago's Municipal Airport, and Washington's National Airport, G.C.A. approaches are routine...
...bigger C-54 cargo planes had to be flown on instruments through the narrow 20-mile Soviet air corridors. But the operation went off like clockwork. Every 48 seconds, on the average, a plane was landing or taking off at one of Western Berlin's two airfields (Tempelhof and Gatow). On Air Force Day thousands of Germans gathered at the Berlin fields and at the loading bases at Frankfurt and Wiesbaden. Many kept tallies of the number of flights and tonnage of coal as husky Latvian and Esthonian D.P.s tossed 110-lb. bags into the planes...
Fifty Days. On Friday the 13th, Berlin had weathered 50 days of siege. The stormiest wind and rain of the year whipped through the ruined city. Nevertheless, on that day the West's cargo planes flew in more than 2,000 tons.* At Tempelhof, a C-54 winged in & out of the overcast with a load of coal, overshot the field, crashed a fence, burst into flame. The two U.S. flyers got out safely through an emergency hatch-leaving the airlift's death toll still at five...
...their rations in the Soviet sector. This offer was denounced and ridiculed in the non-Communist German press. In the first ten days of registration, only 19,000 Germans (out of 2,225,000) had signed up. When a U.S. cargo plane crashed in a city street, near Tempelhof, killing two U.S. airmen but harming no hair of a German head, the Red press denounced the airlift as a menace to German lives. The German answer was to hold a memorial service for the dead flyers...