Word: tunner
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...Communists block ground-supply routes into West Berlin, would another massive airlift work? The most experienced airlift expert of them all, retired Air Force Lieut. General William H. Tunner, is certain that it would. He even has a plan detailing just how it could be done...
Tall, white-haired Tunner, 55, now a Virginia gentleman farmer, ran the Allied airlift over the hump between India and China in World War II, went on to mesh U.S., French and British aircraft into the effective lift that broke the Red blockade of Berlin, and after that to direct the Korean war air supply shuttle between Japan and Korea...
Civil Sniping. No one is more acutely aware of MATS' problems than MATS' boss, Lieut. General William H. Tunner, 53, who commanded the historic airlifts over the Hump in World War II and to Berlin and Korea. Most of Tunner's 483 planes are obsolescent relics of the propeller age. The bulk of them-291 cargo-carrying C124 Globemasters and 163 troop-lifting C-118s and C121 Super Constellations-are seven to twelve years old, are so short-ranged that they rely on vulnerable island refueling stops on long hops. If Wake Island, Kwajalein and Eniwetok were...
What Bill Tunner wants is a fleet of swing-tailed jet aircraft that could lift fighting troops or 20 tons of freight nonstop over 4,000 miles. With a new type of big turboprop cargo plane that MATS wants to develop, Tunner says he could haul for 4? to 5? per ton-mile what now costs 23? on the C124 Globemasters. But MATS is in the sniping sights of the civil airlines, which last year got $85 million worth of business from MATS. (The total military business with the airlines last year, including movements of military people under travel orders...