Interception

During the Berlin Airlift, Soviet fighter aircraft would often intercept US and British transport aeroplanes as they flew to and from Berlin. The Soviet fighters did not fire on the western aircraft, but they would sometimes fly dangerously close. Monty Zeid, who flew to Berlin during the airlift, remembered how:

“The Russian MiGs used to play games with us. They’d fly off to port and starboard and then they would bank away, one after the other, which made the plane rock.”