It became Tegel, now Berlin's major airport. As part of the supply effort, the British Royal Air Force even landed Sunderland Flying Boats on a Berlin lake.
He was especially critical of the failure to create a new modern, well-appointed British air-force and the rapidity with which the German Luftwaffe overtook the British RAF from 1935 onwards.
If the Queen dies abroad, a BAe 146 jet from the RAF's No 32 squadron, known as the Royal Flight, will take off from Northolt, at the western edge of London, with a coffin on board.