1948-49 Berlin Airlift

[Bernard]

Based on the helpful advices got in one of the former CalClassic threads about Berlin Airlift, I intended to recreate as well as possible this memorable period. For this I adapted some known sceneries. Here a couple of screenshots:


Berlin Tempelhof EDDI




The runways at the left and the middle are used for landing, while take off's are set on the runway at the right




In order to get a fluid traffic, some of the taxiways aren't connected to the runways. Landing aircraft overfly the ones taxiing out,




whereas starting aircraft do the same with those taxiing in.




Berlin Gatow EDUG




Berlin Tegel EDDI




Fassberg ETHS






with a similar runway configuration as at Tempelhof to allow a fluid taxi in.




Frankfurt Rhein-Main Air Base EDDF




and civilian part




Wiesbaden ETOU




Celle ETHC




Blanckensee Lübeck ETHL

The initial scenery has been done by Ian Elliot and released recently.




Schleswig ETNS




Hamburg Fulsbüttel EDDH




The Short Sunderland at Finkenwerder



and Berlin Lake Havel




Oberpfaffenhofen EDMO

Oberpfaffenhofen was used for aircraft maintenance,muntil the operations were moved to Burtonwood, near Liverpool, England. The cold Bavarian winter would have hindered maintenance operations, even with improvised docks.




RAF Burtonwood BTW1




Wunstorf ETNW




Buckeburg ETHB

the airfield was used as an alternate airfield.




Luxembourg ELLX

Non scheduled flights have been done from New York to there.




Erding ETSE

This air base hosted flights from Westover AFB




Fritzlar ETHF

Whereas this served as radio beacon and emergency airfield on route back to Frankfurt and Wiesbaden.




Trans American Overseas Airways did the sole scheduled flights form Frankfurt to Tempelhof.




This Boeing C-97 was seen at Tempelhof too




as well as the Douglas C-74 Globemaster, normally assigned at Brookley AFB, Alabama




The British part of Berlin Airlift, Operation "Plainfare", involved a couple of charter airlines. Here some of them, although not all are showing the exact textures of that period:


Avro Lancastrian 'Flight Refueling Ltd'




Avro York 'Skyways'



Avro Lancastrian 'Skyways'




Avro Tudor 'British South American Airways'




Handley Page Halton 'Westminster Airways'




Handley Page Halifax 'Lancashire Air Corporation'




Handley Page Halifax 'British American Air Services'




Consolidated C-87 Liberator Express 'Scottish Airlines'




Douglas DC-3 'Scottish Airlines'




At last, the Soviets didn't remained inactive. As mentioned in a post before, a Yak 9 collided of with a Vickers Viking on approach at Gatow. Presumely they did frequent menacing surveillance flights.






These are some 'chartered' aircraft involved in Airlift: an Avro Tudor BSAA and behind an Consolitaded C-87 Liberator Express of Scottish Airways.




Here an Avro Lancastrian of Flight Refueling Ltd.



These aircraft are still unsorted and temporarly parked at Hamburg until I scheduled them.


Bernard