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1948
1948 - 1607.PDF
SEPTEMBER 30TH, 1948 FLIGHT XX Part 1.—Scheduled Services and the Civil Air Lift Methods and Results Illustrated with "Flight" Photographs FACILITIES accorded by British European Airwaysenabled the writer and L. W. McLaren, Flight photo-grapher, to spend two-and-a-half days )ast week in Germany. The primary aim of the trip was to recordB.E.A. activities, with particular reference to the Civil Air Lift to Berlin as organized and operated by theGerman Area of the Corporation. In the event, it proved possible—thanks to the utmost co-operation of B.E.A.and the R.A.F.—to amass material for a far more com- prehensive report than originally foreseen. This, it is felt,can best be set down in diary form, for a more formal narrative, lacking personal impressions, would convey awholly inadequate picture. . . • - - Wednesday, September 22nd: 'Via the newly opened Kensington Air Station, we were JN the next issue an account will be given of FlyingControl at Gatow, of flights to and from Wunstorf and Lubeck in aircraft of the charter companies; and ofencounters with Russian aircraft. Mr. E. P. Whitfield, B.E.A. Manager, Germany. airborne from Northolt in Viking Vicinity at 0855 localtime. Having covered the 463-mile leg to Hamburg at a ground speed of 205 m.p.h., height 7,000-9,000 ft,Captain Graham set us down to schedule on the jarring P.S.P. runway at Fuhlsbiittel Airport. From the restaurant(where twenty cigarettes and a bar of chocolate cost is 3d to those in transit, and a bottle of beer is to be had for amodest 6d), we saw an Airlinks Dove bearing the ubiquitous " Bata " legend, a blue Halton of Skyfligbfcs.and a Norwegian Airlines DC-3. Work on a 2,000-yd concrete runway is in progress. B.E.A. are general agents at Fuhlsbiittel for the Scan-dinavian Airlines System, K.L.M. and Sabena, and are thus responsible for bookings, airfield handling, transport,etc., for sixty scheduled, and eight optional, services each week. The Corporation itself maintains the London-Hamburg-Berlin Viking runs, and the London-Amster- dam-Copenhagen-Hamburg-Berlin freight services. S.A.S.operate Oslo - Copenhagen - Hamburg - Frankfurt - Zurich- Marseilles ; K.L.M. and Sabena respectively fly Amster-dam-Hamburg and Stockholm-Hamburg-Brussels; and Sabena have a Brussels-Hamburg-Copenhagen service.Fuhlsbiittel, moreover, is an optional stop on the S.A.S. Oslo-Paris route. Thus some really useful business is beingdone. 1 Vicinity bore us on towards Berlin/Gatow in teemingrain and, being confined in the corridor to the " bottom layer" at 1,000 ft, suffered a severe bumping. Thosepassengers who observed it (many being preoccupied with internal instability) were more or less discomfited to c .
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