By Andy Thomas
Regulars
As a spy plane, the DH Chipmunk seems the most unlikely of candidates. And yet, during the Cold War, Berlin-based RAF Chipmunks carried out reconnaissance operations as they flew up and down the air corridors in and out of West Berlin. Andy Thomas outlines the story.
Editor’s Choice
The Chipmunks regularly overflew the ‘unrecognised’ Soviet airfield at Weneuchen where Yakovlev Yak 28 ‘Brewers’ were based. In 1966 one Yak 28 crashed into the lake near Gatow.
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THE COLD WAR IN BERLIN
