Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee on National Military Airlift of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, Eighty-eighth Congress, First Session [on Modernizing Our Military Airlift], July 29, 31, August 1, 7, and 8, 1963 PDF Download

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
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Category : Airlift, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Committee Serial No. 28. Reviews military airlift capabilities and needs.

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Special Subcommittee on National Military Airlift
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Category : Aeronautics, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 910

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
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Category : Aeronautics, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 373

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
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Languages : en
Pages : 910

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
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Languages : en
Pages : 22

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Investigations
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Category : Military exchanges
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
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Category : Government information
Languages : en
Pages : 1160

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee No. 1
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Author: Theodore Joseph Crackel
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ISBN: 9781530050550
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Languages : en
Pages : 252

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This is the story of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF) from its inception to 1991. In suggesting such a reserve airlift fleet in 1947, Admiral E. S. Land, President of the Air Transport Association, drew on the organization's experience with mobilization planning in the mid- to late-1930s and on the airlines' experience in the early months of World War II. "As I see it," he said, "we would have to face it along the same general lines as we did then, omitting as many of the mistakes as possible, of course. At the beginning of the last war, the air transport system had a detailed war plan. Given the necessary information from the military services as to their needs, we can develop this one." The Civil Reserve Air Fleet concept was formally approved on December 15, 1951-by a memorandum of understanding between the Departments of Commerce and Defense. It began to take shape in 1952, when it was allocated some 300 four-engine, airline aircraft for use in case of war or a national emergency. Planning for the use of these assets began almost immediately and interim arrangements were in place by mid-1953. Still, it was not until 1958 that a formal wartime organization was agreed to, and not until 1959 that the first major carrier signed the standby contract that obligated it to provide crews and aircraft in case of a major war or national emergency. Two factors clearly shape the Civil Reserve Air Fleet. The first, the nation's military strategies, dictated the airlift resources CRAF was asked to supply. As it happened, evolving strategies entailed an ever growing requirement for CRAF airlift. By the late 1950s, U.S. military strategy promised the ability to respond across the spectrum of aggression, and then, two decades later, it committed the nation to an increasingly rapid deployment of forces to NATO. The second factor was economic, the economics of the air transportation marketplace. Despite the efforts of the Military Air Transport Service (MATS) and, its successor, the Military Airlift Command (MAC) to influence the make-up of airline fleets-in particular attempts to encourage the airlines to increase their cargo capability-it was the circumstances of the commercial marketplace that drove the decisions. When the air freight business failed to grow as expected, and when the lower-lobe capacity of the airlines' widebody jets proved capable of handling what air freight there was, the scheduled airlines began to divest themselves of their freighter aircraft. MAC's efforts to halt or even to slow this process proved ineffectual. It was not until the development of the air express parcel business, that the industry began once again to add cargo aircraft. Again, it was the economic forces that intervened, not MAC. This is the story of the evolution of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet-from its roots in the pre-World War II planning of the ATA and the Army Air Corps Staff, through its creation in 1951 and its evolution over the years, to a seemingly troubled existence in 1987.

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
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Category : Engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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