"John Norris (AngryDrifter)" (angrydrifter)
08/08/2020 at 13:51 • Filed to: None
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"John Norris (AngryDrifter)" (angrydrifter)
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I’m n
o
t a fan of Formu
la E but I wat
ched a few minutes of it today. Enough to peak my curiosity about the Douglas
C
-54 Skymaster
parked in the middle of the track
. So
me quick reading surfaced that that provided most of the Berlin
A
irlift
support into the airport where the track is
when Russia cut off the road
access.
Of course I was familiar in genera l with the Berlin Airlift but going back and reading the details of the tonnage and what a vic tory it was for Berlin was a fun read.
Interesting history of the airport too.
ranwhenparked
> John Norris (AngryDrifter)
08/08/2020 at 14:33 |
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Is it just me, or was Stalin kind of an asshole?
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> John Norris (AngryDrifter)
08/08/2020 at 14:39 |
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I tuned into that Formula E race (last weekend?) and didn’t know where they were racing, then saw the C-54, which seemed odd. Then I saw the background, and put it together to realize that it is Tempelhof. I thought I had read that there were plans to tear it down, and while it’s no good really as an airport any more, it is such an important place historically. Glad to see it’s still being used.
I love this photo, even though it looks like it might have been staged.
Berlin youngsters, who live near the Tempelhof Air Force Base, where the U. S. Air Force transports planes unload their airlift supplies, play at a game called “Luftbucks” (air bridge). These children of the junior airlift task force use model American planes, which are sold, in German toyshops throughout the western sector of Berlin in 1948. Photo courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration
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John Norris (AngryDrifter)
> ranwhenparked
08/08/2020 at 15:33 |
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Seriously. That wasn’ t a very neighboorly thing to do.
Only Vespas...
> John Norris (AngryDrifter)
08/08/2020 at 15:42 |
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Tempelh of is cool. A few years before closing I flew out i n a Piper Cheyanne III with Beate Uhse, a famous German entrepreneur. That foggy morning there was a Ju- 52 in DLH colors just kind of sitting there.