Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...challenged one Russian attempt to restrict entry to Berlin by sending a C-130 transport in and out of Berlin well above the Russian-set limit of 10,000 ft., despite harassment by Communist fighters; days later came a Russian backdown...
With routine briskness, a U.S. Air Force officer walked into Berlin's four-power Air Safety Center one day last fortnight, filed a flight plan for an incoming C-130 Lockheed Hercules turboprop transport plane. Altitude for the flight through the Berlin air corridor to the Communist-surrounded city: 25,000 ft. Instantly, the Soviet representative at A.S.C. protested; ever since the four powers occupied Berlin, the Russians have arbitrarily set an altitude ceiling for non-Russian planes at 10,000 ft., reserved the airspace above for themselves. The U.S. officer shrugged casually at the protest. The Russian reached...
...twin-engine DC3 transport was seized by six rebels today on a flight from Aux Cayes, in the southern part of Haiti, to this capital...
PORT AU Prince, Haiti, April 10--Foreign Minister Louis Mars blamed Communists today for hijacking a Haitian transport plane, killing the pilot, and flying on to Haitian rebel headquarters in Cuba...
...coolly denied strife-torn Newfoundland (TIME, March 23) the lavish federal aid that the province wants (leading Liberal Premier Joseph Smallwood to cry "betrayal'' and drape provincial buildings in crape). Then, as the House droned toward Easter recess, weary John Diefenbaker caught a Saskatchewan-bound jet transport for a few days off on the anniversary of his monumental election victory a year ago this week...