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Old 21st Oct 2017, 17:24
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Danny42C
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Berlin Airlift Mk.II ?

harrym (#11401),

I have often wondered if it would have been possible, with a Beverley, to get a CPN-4 airfield radar truck into Gatow during the 1961 summer "panic", when the Berlin Wall sprouted, and it was thought that another Airlift might be on the cards.

Its rotary converter truck would not be needed as the US forces in Berlin had their own 110v supply. I do not know the dimensions of a CPN-4 (MPN11 ?) but if you took the wheels off ? ......

All that was there was the old MPN-1 which had been barely adequate in 1948 and hardly any crews in RAF(G) who remembered how to work it. Luckily push did not turn to shove !

Danny.