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A government contract flight is a type of charter airline operation contracted with a government agency. In the United States, the massive mobility requirements during World War II proved that military transport could not meet all the logistical needs that might arise. As a result, the Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF) was developed to use airline ...
Military transport aircraft. A military transport aircraft, military cargo aircraft or airlifter is a military-owned transport aircraft used to support military operations by airlifting troops and military equipment. Transport aircraft are crucial to maintaining supply lines to forward bases that are difficult to reach by ground or waterborne ...
15 September 1991. Developed from. McDonnell Douglas YC-15. The McDonnell Douglas / Boeing C-17 Globemaster III is a large military transport aircraft that was developed for the United States Air Force (USAF) from the 1980s to the early 1990s by McDonnell Douglas. The C-17 carries forward the name of two previous piston-engined military cargo ...
In economics, a virtual airline is an airline that has outsourced as many possible operational and business functions as it can, but still maintains effective control of its core business. [1] Such an airline focuses on operating a network of air services, and outsourcing non-core activities to other organizations. [2]
Military transport aircraft include load-carrying non-combat types such as freight and troop carriers, as well as some other specialised types, used by military forces around the world. In production [ edit ]
The C-160 is designed to perform cargo and troop transport duties, aerial delivery of supplies and equipment and is designed to be compatible with international railway loading gauges to simplify cargo logistics and loading. [6] In flight the cargo area is pressurised and kept at a constant temperature by integrated air conditioning systems. [13]
The Vickers Vernon, introduced in 1921, was the first cargo plane for military troops The Arado Ar 232, the first purpose built cargo aircraft A U.S. Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules, the archetypal military transport aircraft, over the Atlantic Ocean in 2014 The Antonov An-225 Mriya, the heaviest cargo aircraft
In 1952, after aircraft were commandeered for the Berlin Airlift, the Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF) was created as a more orderly way of serving emergency military needs. [1][2] The Fleet has two main segments: international and national (domestic). CRAF has been activated three times. The first activation was as part of Operation Desert Shield.