How The Airlift Works In Berlin -- This map shows how U.S. and British air forces feed land-blockaded Berlin. Most U.S. planes use the southern corridor into Berlin. This runs almost on a bee-line from Frankfurt. Into it feed C-54 ransports from Frankfurt's Rhein-Main airbase and C-47s from nearby Wiesbaden. All these planes land at Tempelhof, U.S. operated airbase in Berlin. All British planes and about 40 U.S. C-47s use Northern corridor to Berlin, running southeast from Hamburg area and landing at British-Operated Gatow Airfield in Berlin. British zone takeoff fields are at Fassberg and Wunstorf with flying boats basing at Hamburg and landing on Berling's Havel Lake. October 13, 1948. (Photo by Associated Press Photo0.