The airlift was a lifeline to Berlin in 1948, but for Neil Fraser, Tubby Carter and Bill Saeton it was even more, as the one way they had of getting back into the air First though, they had to rebuild their machine and the crash landing seemed to have killed their prospects for ever Then Saeton's refusal to admit defeat produced an idea so audacious that only a madman would contemplate it a madman, or a man desperate enough to try anything