Israel hired Alaska Airline's C-46s and their pilots to fly thousands of Jewish people from Yemen to Israel under Operation Magic Carpet.
All of you have heard of the world's greatest airlift called Berlin Airlift but all of you have never heard of the world's second greatest airlift called Operation Magic Carpet conducted by C-46s and DC-4s by Israel using Alaska Airline's planes.
About 55,000 Yeminite Jewish people in Yemen were in danger of persecution and facing elimination in their own country. So Israel decided to hire Alaska Airlines to use C-46s and DC-4s to mount a massive round the clock operation for 18 months airlifting the Jewish Yeminite people out of Yemen to safety to Israel. Why Alaska Airlines 7,000 miles away far far away from Middle East? This airline in 1950s had one of five largest cargo fleets in the world!!!
If you want to recreate the amazing airlift operation flights, here is instruction for you to use C-46s and DC-4s!!
Your job is to evacuate 50,000 Jewish Yeminites from Yemen to Israel.
C-46s normally carried 46 passengers at standard operating procedures but in this magic mission, they carried 76 passengers per flight so add 30 percent more to your C-46's payload plus fuel load!!!
DC-4s normally carried 60 passengers at standard operating procedures but for this magic operation, the DC-4s carried 150 passengers per trip. So DOUBLE your DC-4's payload plus fuel load!!!!
You will fly from Asmara to Aden to Tel Aviv to Paphos to Tel Aviv to Asmara and then repeat the flights.
Flights for C-46s and DC-4s (use specific payload info mentioned above):
From HHAS Asmara International Airport in Eritrea to OYAA Aden International Airport in Yemen, you will take off in empty plane with seven Israeli rescue aid staff members with heavy fuel load ENOUGH for flight to Yemen, then to Israel, and then to Cyprus without refueling.
From OYAA Aden International Airport to LLBG Lod airport in Tel Aviv, you will load up little more fuel to make up for loss of gasoline consumed during flight from HHAS to OYAA and load your plane with passengers at specific payload mentioned above (for C-46 30 percent more than full payload and for DC-4 DOUBLE the full payload).
You will fly from Aden to Red Sea to fly north staying in middle of Red Sea or otherwise if you get closer to left or right, you will risk being shot down. Fly north in middle of Red Sea toward Gulf of Aqaba where you will make right turn and fly in center of Gulf of Aqaba toward Eilat waypoint and once you enter Israeli airspace, feel free to fly to Tel Aviv.
From LLBG Lod Airport to LCPH Paphos International Airport, you will take off with empty plane to LCPH where you will park your plane for overnight in safety (Alaska Airline was afraid of attacks in Tel Aviv airport during the war)
From LCPH Paphos International Airport to LLBG Lod Airport, you will take off in empty plane with heavy fuel load enough for flight to Tel Aviv and then to HHAS Asmara International Airport without refueling.
From LLBG Lod airport to HHAS Asmara International Airport, after picking up seven Israeli relief staff members, you will take off in empty plane for Asmara flying to pass Eilat first and then entering Gulf of Aqaba to fly center of that Gulf until you reach Red Sea, then you turn left to fly south in center of Red Sea to Asmara.
Then repeat process for both C-46s and DC-4s for fights from Asmara using instructions above for few flights.
In one of the flights of Operation Magic Carpert, Alaskan pilots of C-46 flying from OYAA Aden International Airport to LLBG Lod Airport made mistake with fuel consumption calculations due to unexpected strong winds from sandstorm and was forced to make emergency landing at HSPN Port Sudan New International Airport in Sudan which you will do same thing. At HSPN airport, you are going to lie to officials saying you are on emergency medical flight from Yemen to Rome, Italy carrying chicken pox victims and ask for more heavy fuel load enough to reach Rome which Alaskan pilots did to avoid airport authorities' inspection and avoid risk getting shot. This trick worked as Egyptians did not want to catch chicken pox and quickly refueled the plane telling the pilots to take off immediately after refueling. After getting amount of refuel enough for Rome, you will take off from HSPN Port Sudan to fly along the shoreline of Sudan and Egypt to make your story for Rome flight believable until you reach Gulf of Aqaba where you will make quick right turn to make dash to the Gulf toward Eilat on way to Tel Aviv.
That is exciting and challenging tour for you especially you should try to figure out how to take off and fly with HEAVY FUEL LOAD plus DOUBLE CARGO PAYLOAD!!!
Regards,
Aharon
