The Great Air Lift - Now Working 24 Hours Per Day -- Midnight scene at the Gatow Airport as planes arrive, are hastily unloaded and sent off on their return journey. With the latest devises at the disposal of the R.A.F. including a new British invention - "sodium cross-bar lighting" it is now possible to land aircraft in almost any weather and at all hours of the day or night, at at Gatow Airport, in the British Zone of Berlin, the great air-light is now working full out for the whole 24 hours. November 11, 1948. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency, Limited).