These wonderful Pioneer Airlines & Berlin Airlift films capture the pioneering age of commercial aviation from the early 1920s until the late 1940s. This was the time when TWA, United Airlines, American Airlines and Lufthansa were just starting operations. All of these then fledgeling carriers would develop over the following decades into the leader airlines of the 21st century.

1948 To 1949

In June of 1948, the soviets blockaded Berlin, United States and Great Britain did not allow Berlin fall into hands of Russians. Through May of 1949, the RAF and USAF maintained an air link whereby everything from coal and trucks, to food and office paper. It flown from West Germany into Berlin’s three land airports (of Tegel, Tempelhof and Gatow). This Pioneer Airlines & Berlin Airlift DVD features an amazing film showing the allied air efforts in detail. It starts with a visit to the Sunderland flying boat operation that flew goods off the Elb in Hamburg into waterways of Berlin. But this was just a small component of the Berlin Airlift. The landplane operation massive and every available aircraft used.