Backing Up The "Air-Lift" -- Honington is busiest at night, when aircraft are loaded so that at first light they may take off for bases in Germany. Here a giant wheel for a York aircraft, grounded at Wunstorf, Germany, is trundled out to a waiting Dakota of "Operation Plumber." An important if unspectacular link in the maintenance of the Royal Air Force's contribution to the "Air-Lift" into blockaded Berlin is "Operation Plumber." This is the R.A.F.'s name for the major servicing unit of transport Command at Honington, Suffolk, where a fleet of six Dakota are kept busy flying unserviceable aircraft parts back from Germany and taking out immediate replacements. November 24, 1948. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).