Berlin Airlift

HIGH INTENSITY
APPROACH LIGHTS - Employees shown at the Templehof Air Force Base, Berlin, putting up the high watt system approach lights. These lights are placed in straight rows, marking the extensions of the width of the runway. The left row of lights, as seen by the pilot on the landing glide, will be red and the light right
row yellow.
Extensive test with the AGA lights were made at the Landing aids Experiments Station, Arcata, Calif.. Some aircraft landed visually when visibility limits were one-sixteenth of a mile during daylight.

Record Group 342 -G 24-69270 AC

A close-up of winter "weather" in Berlin
airlift corridors. This photograph was made from a B-17 weather plane, one of a
squadron which patrols airlift corridors during
periods when fog or ice threaten airlift
operations. Purpose of the B-17 patrols: to
determine safest flying altitudes for planes
carrying vital supplies into Berlin.

Record Group 342-G-25-93044

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