No. 47 Squadron RAF Army support role. The Squadron moved to RAF Disforth in September 1948, where it became the first RAF Squadron to receive the Handley Page Hastings four-engined transport. The conversion process was rushed as the aircraft were needed to support the Berlin Airlift, with the Squadron moving to Schleswigland, near Kiel in West Germany on 1 November 1948. The aircraft was mainly used to carry coal, carrying out 3,000 trips to Berlin and carrying 22,000 tons of supplies. When the blockade ended the Squadron returned to the United Kingdom, moving to RAF Topcliffe on 22 August 1949, operating in support of
1 Maja Coal Mine production was around 8,400 tons per day. Coal Mine 1 May was the general sponsor of the Polish football team Odra Wodzisław Śląski. 1 Maja Coal Mine The 1 Maja coal mine ("Coal Mine 1st May"; pol. "Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego 1 Maja") was a large mine in the south of Poland in Wodzisław Śląski, Silesian Voivodeship, 260 km south-west of the capital, Warsaw. Built in 1960, it was called "Mszana". Since 1961 it was called 1 Maja (1 May), in honor o fInternational Workers' Day. It was one of the most modern and best coal mines in the Polish People's