TIL at the height of operations during the Berlin airlift, one plane reached West Berlin every thirty seconds. The C-47s and C-54s together flew over 92,000,000 miles (148,000,000 km) in the process, almost the distance from Earth to the Sun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Blockade
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