Berlin Airlift video clip

[ozbeowulf]

FWIW....

There's a vintage BBC news film clip of the Berlin Airlift at...

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8045448.stm

Hastings, Yorks, C-54s, C-47s in flight and on the ground are all interesting, but the initial window (with the "start" click zone) is a shot of that giant four-engined US transport with a semi-bubble cockpit canopy. I can't remember the designation and it doesn't appear in the actual video clip. As I recall, it never got out of testing and wouldn't have been in Berline anyway.

The video is from the BBC so there's a very short commercial first, then the 3 min 17 sec clip.

Cheers,

Glenn

[Dee the man]

I think that was the original prototype of the Douglas Globemaster (?).

Dee

[tcreed]

yes that is the original cockpit layout for the C-74 Globemaster..Jens has modeled a
very good example of this with the the redesigned ..standard.. cockpit arrangement for FS9..

rgds
t.creed

[johnhinson]

I think there are some Tudors there too. And interesting to see a York coming in on three engines - I'm surprised that wasn't cut out of the original film in the interests of the Great British stiff upper lip.

Splendid stuff, thanks for the tip. The television news last night showed only extracts.

John

[jesse]

That big beast was the XC-74. It was assigned to the AMC (Air Materiel Command) and was flown mostly out of San Antonio Air Materiel Area at Kelly AFB and McClellan AFB at Sacramento.

It was the forerunner to the Douglas C-124.

There was one larger type, the XC-99 which was built by Convair and was the freight version of the B-36. Only one was ever produced. It also flew mostly out of Kelly.

Jesse