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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 5
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Remarks of John Harllee, Chairman, Federal Maritime Commission, Before Washington Chapter of National Defense Transportation Association, Nov. 17, 1964, Washington
Author: Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Cumulative Title Index to United States Public Documents, 1789-1976
Author: Daniel W. LesterPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Remarks by John Harllee, Vice Chairman, Federal Maritime Commission, Before National Defense Transportation Association, of Mobile, Ala., May 31, 1962, Mobile, Ala
Author: Traffic World and Traffic Bulletin
Author: A History of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet
Author: Theodore Joseph CrackelPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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.
Remarks of John Harllee, Chairman, Federal Maritime Commission, Before Japan-America Society of Washington, Mar. 3, 1966, at Lawyers' Club in Washington
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Category : Speeches, addresses, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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History of Edgecombe County, North Carolina
Author: Joseph Kelly TurnerPublisher:
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Remarks of John Harllee, Chairman, Federal Maritime Commission, Before 6th Annual European Conference of National Defense Transportation Association, Brussels, Belgium, on United States Maritime Policies and Their Relationships to Free World Commercial and Security Interests, Apr. 10, 1969
Author: Foulois and the U.S. Army Air Corps, 1931-1935
Author: John F. ShinerPublisher:
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Category : Fighter planes
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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