Sentence examples for airlift from inspiring English sources

Officials are concerned that an airlift back to Australia could take at least 30 hours, during which time the person could die, and a more suitable arrangement would be an evacuation to a closer country.

In the audience was the "candy bomber" Gail Halvorsen, now 92, who, as an American airforce pilot, dropped sweets to children during the 1948-49 Berlin airlift, which kept the city's population alive during the Soviet blockade and which became the strongest symbol of US-German friendship.

According to Russian media, the decree "lifts the ban on transit through Russian territory, including airlift, and the export from the Russian Federation to the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also the transfer to the Islamic Republic of Iran outside the territory of the Russian Federation, both by sea and by air, of air defence missile systems S-300".

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As a result, they are too small, especially after recent budget cuts.Foreigners may wonder why Berlin is considering closing Tempelhof, a Third Reich airport and site of the famous airlift that guaranteed the city's survival during the Soviet blockade of 1948-49.

But there was some tricky diplomacy over Japan, which wanted to come but was refused, and the Soviet Union, which didn't turn up—unsurprisingly, perhaps, since the games coincided with the Anglo-American airlift to Soviet-blockaded Berlin. Soviet-blockaded Berlin

The airlift's end, with Soviet acceptance of a new West German currency in West Berlin, was a stalemate that remained in place in Europe until the collapse of communism 40 years later.By the end of the airlift, an astonishing 2.25m tonnes of cargo had flown in and out of the city, more than three-quarters of it on American planes.

The lack of airlift, for instance, has made it difficult for some countries to move their men and equipment.

The government used helicopters to airlift food and medical supplies and rescue those at risk.

Last year, for example, All Out raised a stack of cash in 24 hours to help airlift out of Iraq some gay activists who feared for their lives.