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	Berlin Blockade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was in favour of the airlift option and knew who was the best man to run the operation: Lieutenant-General William H. Tunner was tasked with organising and commanding the Berlin airlift because of his experience of commanding and organising the airlift over the Hump.
		However, the airlift did not end until September 30, as the Western nations wanted to build up sufficient amounts of supplies in West Berlin in case the Soviets blockaded it again.
		In mid-April the combined airlift of all nations operations managed in 24 hours to make 1,398 flights, carrying 12,940 tons (13,160 t) of goods, coal and machinery, beating their record of 8,246 (8,385 t) set only days earlier.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Berlin_Airlift (1171 words)

	Airlift History * What really happend*
		At the beginning of the airlift General LeMay had hoped to concentrate the men of the 60th and the 61st Troop Carrier Group at Rhine Main AFB which had one 6,000 yard runway.
		At the start of the airlift the main aircraft used was the C-47 and they first were to carry 80-tons of milk, flour and medicine into the suffering city of Berlin.
		By December 31st of 1948 the 100,000th airlift mission was flown since it's beginning on the 26th of June.
	www.konnections.com /airlift/berlin.htm (1229 words)

	AirLift Water Pump
		The airlift water pumping system has been used for many years, and many well drilling outfits are used to pump and develop water wells.
		Airlift operates by the injection of compressed air into the water inside of a discharge pipe, at a point below the water level in the well.
		The AIRLIFT air injection pump has no moving parts so there is nothing to wear out, AIRLIFT Technologies is so confident in the durability of its air injection pump that we guarantee it for life under normal use.
	www.malibuwater.com /AirliftPump.html (598 words)

	Airlift -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		An airlift is the act of transporting people or cargo from point to point using aircraft.
		This can be as ordinary as transporting (A telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points) televisions from one airport to another, or as extraordinary as the Berlin Airlift.
		The bubble moves water through the pipe sucking debris from the lower end and depositing it from the upper end of the pipe.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ai/airlift.htm (172 words)

	Berlin Airlift - US Air Force Museum Cold War History Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Faced with the choice of abandoning the city or attempting to supply its inhabitants with the necessities of life by air, the Western Powers chose the latter course and for the next 11 months sustained the city's 2 1/2 million residents in one of the greatest feats in aviation history.
		Operation Vittles, as the airlift was unofficially named, began on June 26 when USAF C-47s carried 80 tons of food into Berlin, far less than the estimated 4,500 tons of food, coal, and other material needed daily to maintain a minimum level of existence.
		Airlift aircraft used three airfields within Berlin: Tempelhof (above) in the U.S. sector, Gatow in the British sector, and Tegel which was built in the French sector in only 60 days using volunteer German men and women laborers.
	www.wpafb.af.mil /museum/history/postwwii/ba.htm (529 words)

	History of Dover AFB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Today’s airlift crews and maintainers owe their place in history to the veterans of the past, whose talents, vision, and successes were instrumental in establishing the impact and importance of airlift today.
		Airlift Wing; two names that are now synonymous, but in the past, served as very different entities with dissimilar missions.
		On 1 January 1966, the Military Air Transport Service was redesignated the Military Airlift Command and in conjunction with the reorganization, the 1607 ATW inactivated and the 436th Military Airlift Wing (436 MAW) activated and assumed the mission at Dover.
	homepages.apci.net /~80tcs/Heritage.htm (4389 words)

	CNN - Cold War: Chat with Gail Halvorsen
		Having flown there during the airlift in 1948-49, and then being assigned as the commanding officer to Tempelhof [air base], I saw the change from the total destruction of the earlier days to West Berlin thriving and then being surrounded by the Wall.
		For now this summer, in 1998, I was one of three pilots that flew a C-54 Berlin airlift support airplane back to Berlin and saw the tremendous reaction of the old Berliners to seeing that aircraft that gave them life during the blockade over their city 50 years later.
		The coalition at the end of the airlift, the idea spawned NATO, and NATO was the force that held the line against Soviet expansion.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/guides/debate/chats/halvorsen (3430 words)

	The Berlin Airlift of 1948 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At the peak of the airlift a plane was landing or taking off from Berlin's airfields every thirty seconds round the clock and daily tonnages were averaging 8,000 tons.
		The problem of West Berlin was the same before the airlift as it was after it, and the city remained an island in a Soviet sea.
		But the airlift continued in full spate for another four months so that stocks could be built up in case the blockade was reimposed.
	mars.acnet.wnec.edu /~grempel/courses/germany/lectures/36airlift.html (3791 words)

	AirLift Logistics, LLC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		AirLift Logistics, LLC was founded to offer both the end-user and equipment operator a better way to more efficiently come together.
		Whatever your need and whenever you need it - AirLift Logistics can better serve you by eliminating the time it takes to locate the right equipment at the right price.
		While AirLift Logistics is a non-asset based company, we have over 18 years of combined aerial crane, general construction, firefighting, and aircraft chartering experience.
	www.airliftlog.com (101 words)

	Publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The purpose of Airlift Tactics is to provide a forum for the expression of thoughts concerning all aspects of theater airlift operations.
		Airlift Tactics contains informative articles of current theater airlift interest, interviews with airlift leaders, lessons learned from past operations, personal perspectives on theater airlift issues, and a forum for the cross-tell of tactics and intelligence information.
		Airlift Tactics is published on a quarterly basis and is in newsletter format.
	aw139.ang.af.mil /aattc/pubs.htm (255 words)

	Airlift - Military Aircraft
		Airlift operates across the range of military operations performing six broad tasks: deployment, employment, redeployment, sustainment, aeromedical evacuation (AE), and military operations other than war, such as foreign humanitarian assistance and noncombatant evacuation operations.
		Marine forces require common-user airlift for deployment into a theater as part of a maritime prepositioning force as an air contingency force or as a Marine expeditionary force afloat and/or ashore.
		Airlift future a question of balance Air Force Print News 25 Aug 1999 -- Air Force chief of staff Gen. Michael E. Ryan said "We are not a two-major theater war Air Force in a lot of areas.
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ac/lift_comp.htm (1356 words)

	The Berlin Airlift
		The Berlin airlift was preceded by nearly three years of constant tension and sniping by the Russians against the Western Allies in an attempt to drive them out of West Berlin and Western Germany by a variety of tactics, including searches, blocking transportation of even basic supplies to West Berlin and intimidating West German Civilians.
		By February 1949 the airlift was averaging a daily lift of 5,500 short tons.
		However, within a matter of hours the Russians began imposing new restrictions and a strike on the railways meant that the Allies decided to continue the airlift until the land routes were fully restored and a reserve of supplies had been built up in the city against such an occurrence in the future.
	www.britains-smallwars.com /Cold-war/Berlin-Airlift.htm (3042 words)

	The Cold War Museum - Berlin Airlift (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		To counter the blockade, the western powers organized and airlifted a total of 2,326,406 tons of food, coal, passengers, and other items into the city in a total of 278,228 flights.
		The Soviets did not respond to the airlift by trying to stop it, mainly because they believed that they would have failed or triggered a war.
		At the height of the airlift, planes flew around the clock in four hour blocks taking off and landing every 90 seconds.
	www.coldwar.org /articles/40s/berlin_airlift.php3 (176 words)

	Berlin airlift on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The massive effort to supply the 2 million West Berliners with food and fuel for heating began in June, 1948, and lasted until Sept., 1949, although the Russians lifted the blockade in May of that year.
		During the around-the-clock airlift some 277,000 flights were made, many at 3-min intervals.
		By spring, 1949, an average of 8,000 tons was being flown in daily.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/b/berlinai.asp (395 words)

	Air Power:The Berlin Airlift
		The massive airlift was the largest humanitarian operation ever undertaken by the air force.
		Even the airlift to war-torn Sarajevo between 1992 and 1997 brought in only 179,910 tons—less than the amount flown into Berlin in one month alone.
		He discouraged flying heroics, saying that " a successful airlift is about as glamorous as drops of water on a stone." And the new flying regulations reflected this, leaving little room for error.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Air_Power/berlin_airlift/AP35.htm (1689 words)

	9th Airlift Squadron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Originally constituted as the 9th Transport Squadron on Jan. 1, 1938, and activated on Dec. 1, 1940, the unit was assigned to the 63rd Transport Group at Patterson Field, Ohio, performing replacement training in the C-34, C-33, and C-39 aircraft.
		The squadron was reactivated on Nov. 13, 1964, and redesignated the 9th Military Airlift Squadron (MAS) on Jan. 8, 1966 at Dover AFB, Del. The squadron flew a broad spectrum of missions, which included support of Presidential trips to Southeast Asia and scientific expeditions in the Antarctic.
		In 1979, a 9AS crew was co-recipient with a 3rd Airlift Squadron crew of the MacKay Trophy for exceptional competence, determination, and total dedication exhibited during the Zaire Airlift Operation I in May 1978, making the 9AS the first and only unit to win this coveted award in consecutive years.
	public.dover.amc.af.mil /org/og/9as (689 words)

	STRATEGIC AIRLIFT: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		General Tunner and his airlift team were also called on to impose order on the early chaos of air transport between Japan and Korea.
		Both tactical and strategic airlift played a vital role in supporting and sustaining the military efforts of the United Nations throughout the Korean conflict, although their accomplishments received scant recognition in the official histories.
		Historically, airlift has not had a high priority during financially hard times––a fact that leads to the inevitable conclusion that the C-17 program, at a cost of $37.5 billion, will be one of the first "sacred cows" to feel the budgetary axe.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/aureview/1986/sep-oct/leary.html (3481 words)

	Airlift Helicopter Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Airlift operates Hughes 500's with a lift capacity of 1200lbs.
		Based at the Reno Tahoe airport Airlift responds to a wide variety of client needs ranging from short-term charters to long term contracts.
		Airlift specializes in external load work, from remote geological drilling in Alaska to precision lift work setting air conditioner units in downtown Reno.
	www.airliftheli.com (127 words)

	The Berlin Airlift
		Coal, heating oil, medicines, food and necessary supplies were airlifted into Berlin in an endless stream of transport aircraft operating at 2 minute intervals day and night in every kind of weather.
		The Berlin Airlift was a live demonstration on the future of the Air Cargo Industry.
		The airlift had not reached its predicted consumption rate yet, and starvation was near.
	www.spiritoffreedom.org /airlift.html (4217 words)

	WATER PUMPING WINDMILLS-Airlift Technologies High Performance Windmill Water Pumping
		AIRLIFT water pumping windmills are in operation in some of the hottest and coldest environments in the world.
		AIRLIFT Technologies is a U.S. Based air lift windmill water pump company with the purpose of providing an effective, low-cost solution to your water pumping needs through the use of cutting edge windmill design and advanced air lift water pumping technology.
		Another added benefit of the AIRLIFT injection pump is that it tends to oxygenate and purify the water as part of it's pumping process.
	airliftech.com (681 words)

	Airlift Services International, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A group of Anderson, Indiana based businessmen have invented a new oil pump called “The Airlift Oil Pumping System” that is believed to be the first pump in the U.S. to successfully pump oil using compressed air.
		Airlift Services International (ASI) was founded by a group of businessmen led by President, Dr. John Marvel with the mission of making his shallow oil wells profitable.
		Because the Airlift system is constructed of corrosion-resistant materials, the frequency of maintenance checks is greatly reduced.
	www.baumpub.com /publications/arc/oil_04jan/airlift.htm (290 words)

	Network for Good :: Search for a Charity
		In 1976 Mercy Airlift delivered thousands of pounds of medical equipment, food, building supplies to Guatemala immediately after their great earthquake that took the lives of 30,000 people, and left hundreds of thousands homeless.
		Other events both domestic and foreign in which Mercy Airlift was a vital participant in aid relief during disasters and in the rebuilding and recovery stages of humanitarian aid ranged from 1977 through 1998.
		Mercy Airlift is dedicated to providing humanitarian aid through warehousing of materials and supplies to meet the different types of disasters; to transporting those supplies and the supplies of other humanitarian organizations directly to the disaster sites.
	partners.guidestar.org /controller/searchResults.gs?action_gsReport=1&partner=networkforgood&ein=95-4095653 (828 words)

	To Save a City: The Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Noting that this airlift was having a meager impact, the Soviets drew the incorrect conclusion that an airlift would never meet the needs of a city of 2.3 million.
		During the famous Hump airlift of World War II, the most common cargo was gasoline; during the Berlin airlift, it was coal, which accounted for 65 percent of all cargo.
		The British portion of the airlift was named Operation Plainfare, while the drop of candy to German children from C-54s initiated by 1st Lt Gail Halvorsen was called Operation Little Vittles.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/bookrev/miller1.html (655 words)

	Heroes Welcome
		It became the airlift's chief commodity; a million and a half tons were delivered by the time the lift ended.
		The airlift helped fuel a "bigger is better" trend as well as a push for mission-specific airlifters--both apparent in the heavy-lift C-5 and the short takeoff-capable McDonnell Douglas C-17A flying today.
		Reese is also the director of Berlin's Airlift Foundation, which the city founded in 1959 to give assistance to the families of the 78 British and American men who died in the airlift.
	www.airspacemag.com /ASM/Mag/Index/1998/JJ/hrwc.html (4180 words)

	Berlin Airlift
		Lacking the ground forces to punch through the blockade, the Western Allies had no choice but to rely on airlift if their sectors in Berlin, with a combined populace of some two million, were to survive.
		Chosen to command the Berlin Airlift was Major General William H. Tunner, a veteran of the aerial supply line across the Himalayas, from India to China, during World War II.
		Despite the resumption of surface traffic into the city, the airlift continued until 30 September to mass a reserve of food, fuel, and other supplies in the event the Soviets reimposed the blockade.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/ops/berlin_airlift.htm (1202 words)

	911th Airlift Wing [911th AW]
		Re-designated the 911th Military Airlift Group in 1967, it remained under the control of the 459th and was assigned to the Eastern Air Force Region.
		In October 1994 the 911th was re-designated the 911th Airlift Wing, the 33rd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron was renamed the 911th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron and the 911th Medical Squadron became the 911th Aeromedical Staging Squadron.
		The mission of the 911th Airlift Wing is to organize, recruit and train Air Force Reserve personnel to provide airlift of airborne forces, their equipment and supplies and delivery of these forces and materials by air drop, landing or cargo extraction systems.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/usaf/911aw.htm (957 words)

	The Berlin Airlift
		When the airlift began, there were only two airfields in Berlin; Tempelhof with one runway in the US sector and Gatow with one runway in the British sector.
		Depressions in the runway began to form and soon a force of 225 men was kept busy working on the runway between plane landings in attempting to keep the field operational.
		In early July 1948, construction on a new runway at Tempelhof began without interrupting airlift traffic and during the same period the old runway was being constantly repaired.
	www.trumanlibrary.org /whistlestop/study_collections/berlin_airlift/large/berlin_airlift.htm (422 words)

	Mercy Airlift
		It is the Mission of Mercy Airlift to provide humanitarian aid on a nondiscriminatory and impartial basis to the victims of natural and man made disasters wherever they occur in the world.
		However, millions of families throughout the world, living in dire poverty, are without even the bare essentials of basic survival.
		Mercy Airlift is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
	mercyairlift.org (285 words)

	Airlift (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Related stories: Airlift, Contract Awards, Special Forces, U.S. Combat Talon II The Boeing Company has received a $134 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to begin the first phase of a program to modify 10 C-130 aircraft into the MC-130H Combat Talon II configuration.
		Related stories: Airlift, Army Aviation, Contract Awards, U.S. The U.S. Department of Defense has recently issued contracts related to the maintenance or upgrade of its CH-47 Chinook medium transport helicopters, even as related contracts like the M240H machine gun update their associated weapons.
		Related stories: Airlift, Chemical, Contract Awards, Detection, Medical, U.S. -TECH, a joint venture and small business qualifier in Seattle, WA, is being awarded a not-to-exceed $20 million firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract to measure the effectiveness of the Navy's environmental remediation and controls in the American Northwest.
	www.defenseindustrydaily.com /airlift (2137 words)

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